A Day In the Life: November 2012

November 21, 2012

We began preparations for Thanksgiving first thing this morning. Riley made the beef dip and the cranberry relish.

We completed as much as we could today so that tomorrow would be more relaxing. Hadley and Mother both came to help. Mother always makes the pies.

I am thankful for our refridgerator full of food for tomorrow. God has provided abundantly.

Crafting Happiness! I have been looking at Goodwill since last fall for Scrabble games so I could use the tiles in crafts. I never dreamed it would take so long to find one. But happy day--I found two--both practically new!

November 19, 2012

I have wrapped Hadley and Daniel's 24 Days of Christmas. They are ready and waiting for the countdown to begin.

November 18, 2012

It is my month to teach Junior Church. Of course we are discussing thankfullness. Calleigh has been helping me out. We were missing several kids this week as they were travelling for Thanksgiving.

November 17, 2012

Today Hadley, Calleigh, Sharon, Elizabeth, June and I followed tradition by shopping at the Christmas bazzar at Kettering Fairmont HS (though it was our first year without Victoria). I planned on taking a photo of us all, but left my camera in Calleigh's purse and she had to leave early, so this is a photo of the goodies I bought.

November 16, 2012

Sharon and I had not chatted in quite a while so we met for tea at Eclipse. We enjoyed hot cinnamon spice tea in these cute mugs and spent a few hours catching up.

November 15, 2012

Calleigh's first paycheck!

November 14, 2012

Shopping with Riley is - an experience - to say the least. Today while at Sam's he stated that it had a been a long time since he had thrown a temper tantrum and so he was going to sit between these matresses until I gave in and bought him the little bottles of Sunny D. Needless to say he did get up and he did NOT get his little bottles of Sunny D. Of course he was not serious (at least I hope not). He is a great help with all the heavy stuff at Sam's and keeps me laughing down the aisles.

November 13, 2012

Riley drew this logo for his theater group. It depicts things from some of the plays they have done so far.

November 12, 2012

My co-op class is studying ancient China. For fun I took several of the things Hadley had brought back from her trip there. The girls had fun trying on the silk dress. Aly is pictured here.

November 11, 2012

This was my grandma's biscuit cutter, it must not be a magic biscuit cutter though as mine are never as delicious as I remember hers being.

November 10, 2012

Spotted this beautiful leaf on a walk with Mother.

November 9, 2012

I cleaned out my "in-box" today--or at least I thought I had empied it!

November 8, 2012

My favorite time of year!

November 7, 2012

Amazing--McD's Chocolate Chip Mocha Frappe! Love It!

November 6, 2012

Election Day. This day came with prayer and fasting, but our plans are not God's plans and the results were not what we had hoped. Much prayer will be needed as we go through the next four years.

November 5, 2012

Solo thinks she is pretty cute!

November 4, 2012

Handsome Sam had me charmed in the nursery this morning at church.

November 3, 2012

Hadley and I went to a few craft bazzars this morning. We had such a fun time together. One of the goodies we brought home was this pouch of catnip. Solo went a little crazy over it. She licked it untiil it was a sodden mess!

Calleigh made us all a delicious treat--vanilla "hot chocolate".

November 2, 2012

HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY CALLEIGH ANNE!

Lunch with Maree, Kaitlyn and Hadley at Panera

Family dinner at PF Changs--Calleigh's favorite restaurant.

Soccer field cake made by Riley.

November 1, 2012

Calleigh's first day of work at Joann's--her first real job!

October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween! I made my mother's sugar cookies and Calleigh frosted them. (another one of our fall traditions. Later that evening we made pizza and watched a "scary" movie. This is one of our most important fall traditions. Greg and I had our first "date" 33 years ago on Halloween. He bought me a 33 Miles cd since it was our 33rd halloween together. Our first date consisted of him coming to my house (we were only 15), us making pizza, watching a "scary" movie on tv, and then my dad coming home from work late and bring us a pizza as a treat.