Yes we are counting down! We have a calendar on the wall and each day gets a Thanksgiving,fall or something along those lines sticker! I love this time of year. The baking, smells, time with kids and family. We will bake pies and turkey and yams, sweet potatoes, potatoes! The kids each have a dish or pie they make on their own, the younger help with everything. It is so much fun! And smells so good! It really brings us together (makes a mess) This year we cheated and bought some pretty Thanksgiving paper plates! Sick of dishes! But you know I thought it was deserved! This time of year makes me feel so many thngs.It brings up so many memories. Not all good but I try to focus on the good. It amazes me how deeply the memories touch me this time of year, I actually feel them, not just remember them but feel them. I smell them, its almost as if I can reach out and touch the past at times. I can be looking out the window, watching the leafs fall from the trees, and the smells will come along and I feel as if I am transported back in times, not just one time, but into many times. Times as a child. I remember so many Holiday meals around the table of my grandparents. I miss them terribly this time of year. Times as a teen, and many as an adult. Washing a hams writing, Maranda licking the pies, so many things! The many meals I have made in my home. That's the hard part I think. Making me miss my husband, and family that are not here with me,knowing that the future holidays may never be the same, not knowing what the future holds there. Feeling the past, living in the now and hoping for the future. We will be doing our traditional writing of all we are thankful for on the Table cloth again, I think I will post it here. I would truly love to hear from everyone and hear what your thankful for this year! Please comment, write back or something. I want to know what others are thankful for.                                          

             We are all ok. Kids are doing awesome in school! I am so proud of them all! They are amazing. Even with my being sick so much recently they keep doing their school without me even and just do great! They are also growing unbelievably! I truly love them and am blessed to have such awesome kids! I am trying to get some new pics on here for you all to see. They are changing so much I am amazed daily!  I am ok, my health issues are still there but hopefully will resolve someday. My kids and mom are very supportive through it.  Sir N is amazing! I think he should probably be up a school year, but I am keeping him where he is to make sure nothing is missed. He is so smart. It only takes the kids about 2-3 hours to do 2 days worth of lessons each day, thats what I have them doing. They will get several days off next week for Thanksgiving!! They deserve it! Well I am trying to update pics so check in ALOT to see! We love all our family and friends out there

OH My little sister and BIL had their baby early, very early so if you could all PLEASE keep them in their prayers I would appreciate it. The baby needs it. She will be in the hospital until Feb. My sister was just released from the hospital andher and her awesome dh will need prayers also to get through this please.

FIND JOY IN THE JOURNEY NOW! PRESIDENT MONSON SUNDAY OCT 5TH,2008 GENERAL CONFERANCE  This is now my motto to live by. I have spent 2 years struggling, I felt like he was talking directly to me!