Wow. I have quite a few photos to share!
Last week was Becca’s Thanksgiving Feast in Kindergarten. Here I am with my little pilgrim. It was a fun event. The Kindergarteners amazed everyone by reciting all of Psalm 100 for memory! Loved that.
It was quite a feast, complete with venison sausage, popcorn, and Indian Pudding for dessert!
Sarah played a duet with a friend in church on Thanksgiving Eve – I love that we have church on Thanksgiving Eve – and I haven’t gotten the pictures from my friend yet, but I’ll post when I do. They did a great job and plan to play the duet again at the Christmas recital in December. It’s really fun having kids who are playing real, grown-up music now.
Since we had no family around for Thanksgiving this year, we invited a couple from Ed’s work over for Thanksgiving dinner who also had no family around this year. A lot of games were played…
And a lot of food was consumed…
That is one of my new favorite desserts. Cookie Apple Cobbler. YUMMY. It was a good day.
Black Friday was observed by Ed.
See. He’s wearing black. And actually, we did no shopping on Black Friday. We took full advantage of the warmish winter day and put up Christmas lights, cleaned up around the yard, and did lots of odds and ends both indoors and out. The girls played outside quite a bit 
and we ended the day with a pizza dinner with some of our oldest friends.
As you can see, they are not actually old. They are just friends that we have had for…well…since before that tall kid on the right was born. When did he get that tall, anyway? It was a wonderful evening spent together and their daughter even spent the night so the fun was extended…at least for the girls. :)
On Saturday, Ed hauled out the boxes of Christmas decorations and I proceeded to make a big mess in the house
until all the decorating (other than the tree, which we will cut down at a later date yet to be determined) was complete.
Today after church and a very simple dinner (so glad to not eat leftovers once again) Ed finished fixing the Christmas lights (we had some length issues), and there were a couple strands leftover, so when Ed suggested to the girls that they might like to hang them up in their room, they jumped right up!
Not sure what’s going on with the blue reflector spots, but whatever. It adds to the magic and mystery of the season, right? Can you imagine a more wonderful thing to a child than falling asleep with Christmas lights hanging above your bed? Do you remember the nights as a child falling asleep on the floor by the Christmas tree? It’s magical and beautiful and wonder-full. As long as I can impress upon them the reason why we put up lights…to show that Jesus is the light of the world…and as long as the Scripture we read at dinner tonight…when Jesus talks about US being the salt and the light of the earth…becomes so much engrained in their hearts that they cannot help but shine for Jesus as they continue to grow…well…then…some of my most sincere and deepest prayers for them will have been answered.
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