Can you believe 2009 is almost in the books and that Thanksgiving is over and Christmas right around the corner? This year has flown by as they all seem to do now that I am an adult.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at my dad's - there were 19 of us and we ate like kings. My brother was in town from MS for the week and it was great to visit with him. He and I did the crazy black friday shopping scene - from midnight until about 8:00am, it was tiring, but fun.
Our house is ready for Christmas. We have a real tree this year, which is a first for us. It is beautiful!! I'm so happy with it. The kids and I decorated while Dan "supervised" and then put the star on top. David is at just the right age this year to really be into the decorating. He had so much fun and was quite upset that we couldn't just keep loading up the tree - we kept telling him it was done and looked great, but he wanted LOTS more ornaments on there. I need to get my wreath on the front door and that will be all for outside this year. We have a surprise trip planned 2 days after Christmas so I wanted a little less to put up this year.
This is getting long so I'll try and wrap up with a quick update on everyone.
Dan is doing great - still in remission and handling the lingering side effects well. He still has a little more fatigue than I'm 100% comfortable with, but all things considered - he's GREAT!! He's been really busy with more vacancies than we like - this economy, combined with Christmas expenses are causing lots of our tenants to be late with their rent. He is also working on several projects around here in his shop and about to start on a new kitchen pantry cabinet for me - woo hoo!!!
Emily is currently dealing with strep, but aside from that her health is great. The thyroid medicine is working well and she has actually (finally) gained a little much needed weight. She is all teenager now and it is "interesting" to say the least LOL. Dance is over for the year and she's thinking of doing gymnastics over the winter. She was here this weekend for the Christmas decorating and present wrapping and we had lots of fun - that girl LOVES to wrap presents (yeah me!!). She had to build a marble roller coaster with lots of specifics and she and Dan worked on it over Thanksgiving - cutting, grinding, welding, etc. It turned out really well and the teacher asked to keep it so she could show classes in the future. Emily scored two 100's!!
David is his usual pistol ball self. He still loves school, loves people, loves trains, cars, balls, etc. Just as active as ever. His soccer season is over and sadly he missed the team party because he had strep. He is much better now though, oh and so is his ear. We went to Children's last Monday for his final ear surgery check and doc was thrilled. The ear looks great on the inside and out and the 35db hearing loss is no more - his hearing was great!!! He is playing basketball this winter and practice for that starts this week.
Whew - I've got to get back into my update routine so these aren't so long and that will enable me to share the funny little day-to-day things that really make life worthwhile!!!
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