First Snow

My children were so excited this morning to see the first smattering of snow of the season. I sent boots and snow pants to school just in case because I would never hear the end of it this afternoon if it turns out that they needed them. When we were saying our morning prayers in the car on the way to school, the kids even added, "and Thank you God for the snow!" Very cute! I never have added some photos I took of the kids playing in the leaves when we helped rake the neighbors leaves. They had a blast and did something nice for our sweet neighbor. Hopefully I will get them up soon. We finally made the switch to a new computer and I can't find much at the moment. Soon soon I will get my act together. I keep saying that. Busy week again this week as both kids have had dental appointments on top of other stresses this week. Making some final scheduling preparations for our trip south for Christmas. I am trying to appease the 2 men in my life, husband and son, and failing miserably. My son is not happy about taking off 2 days from school to have a 2 full weeks down south and my husband wants to leave even a day earlier. I am trying to appease by saying that we can get started on the drive right after school on Friday to get ourselves on our way. Not sure that is going to fly either. Oh well, I am trying. Have a good weekend everyone if I don't get the chance to say so tomorrow. My hubs is taking the day off to spend some time with me, well and Ainsley too as she is off from school as well. Celebrating a big day...not a milestone, but I am not going to say exactly how much either. Is that vague enough for you?

50 Things I can be Thankful for this Thanksgiving...

This is something we worked on as a family yesterday after breakfast. It is in some cases easy to guess who is thankful for what...

1. Food
2. Shelter
3. Clothing
4. Mommy
5. Daddy
6. Aidan
7. Ainsley
8. Trees and sticks
9. Pilly
10. Rain
11. Flowers
12. Special Turkey Dinners
13. Peanut Butter Sandwiches
14. Friends
15. Football
16. Books
17. Playstation
18. Enthusiasm
19. Coffee
20. Warm Showers
21. God
22. TP
23. Abuela
24. Tadcu
25. Nana
26. Grandpa
27. Aunt D
28. Titi M
29. Uncle J
30. Titi Mini
31. Uncle T
32. Bis abuela
33. Great Grandpa
34. Cousins
35. Baby cousin
36. Snow
37. Sunshine
38. Warm coats
39. Christmas concerts
40. Bedtime
41. Dresses
42. Video games
43. Alex
44. Stuffed toys
45. Orange juice and ice cream
46. Bible
47. Quilts
48. Daddy's job
49. Princesses
50. Quiet time

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing all my readers, regular and those passing through, a Happy Thanksgiving holiday. Wishing you all many blessings!

Coughing...

both my children are coughing again. Ainsley started running a fever last night so I kept her home from school this morning. She has no fever this morning either but because the school recommends that there be no fever for 24 hours she is home. I have been second guessing myself...I know they just have colds, but I called the pediatricians office to double check. The nurse said it is not flu and just to keep an eye on her, push fluids, and don't be surprised if the fever comes back this afternoon. Aidan's teacher is once again giving him the 3rd degree about if he has fever and what medicines he has been taking. If I kept him home for every cold, he would miss school weeks at a time! This whole flu thing is driving me crazy. We are using our best precautions. The kids had the seasonal flu vaccine, but no H1N1 vaccines have been available. Frustrating.

Now that I am done whining...

I should know better to post about my run until the Advil kicks in! I am going to keep trying for a few more weeks and see how things improve. After talking more with my hubs last night he suggested I just go to the gym and use the elliptical since there is no impact. I would but the point was to do a 5K together sometime next year. Not sure if that will happen, but I will try to persevere!

This morning the ladies bible study groups from church got together to pack boxes for Operation Christmas child. I wasn't going to go initially because I have so much going on but decided to go at the last minute. I should know better and just plan on going every year because I had such a good, uplifting time. Samaritans Purse is a wonderful organization, so if you are interested, check them out.

Short post today, but I had to redeem myself for the whining of yesterday. Thanks for all your kind words and prayers my dear readers.

Ow, Ow, Owwww!

My legs hurt. Running, seriously, what was I thinking! Does this get better? Is it even worth it. Walking or biking is so much easier on my joints! I want to quit and my hubby tells me not to get discouraged. I am very discouraged.

Running...

in my life right now I am surrounded by runners. Local friends, old friends from home, old school friends...all runners. I am more of a cyclist. I love to ride my bike especially my new Trek bike which is not so new any more, but I still feel as if it is new. I love to ride up the lakeshore trail to the beach in the next town and back. Not sure what the actual mileage is, but something I will have to check on one of these days. As the weather turned cold and wet in October and dealing with the first illness of the fall, I fell of my exercise train. Today I got back on with a new activity. With the help of the schedule on a website for runners, I started my first run today alternating walking/running for short increments. So far, I feel good. Lets see how my legs feel tonight/tomorrow. Of course I would pick the coldest morning thus far this fall to start this new activity, so I may have to get myself into the gym sooner than I had planned. We will see.


On another note, I was sent a permission slip home from school for Aidan to start further testing in math. To my understanding right now, his teacher has had him working on 3rd grade work. Conferences are next week so I will find out in more detail what exactly they are testing him for. That boy of mine is on fire for math right now. He wants to know all about algebra and geometry. I must make a confession. I was awful at geometry! I loved all other math but that! We will cross that bridge when we come to it though. Who knows, maybe I could actually learn it this time around. My brain does not work the proof well. I just don't get it. Ahh well, off to take a quick shower and work on bible study and housework. Off to another busy day!