Life is Good

Here it is the start of a new work week. Everyone was up early getting ready. On Monday's Abigail goes in early with her dad to catch a ride for her 8 am Algebra class. Catherine and dad have to open each of our schools and Byson is sleeping like a little bug in his bed. He is so cute when he wakes up in the mornings. We have to be there by 8:30 today and it is the count down until the big game Saturday. Thomas' check up was postponed until today, so we still don't know how his knee is. We do have a prayer praise tho, after the game and before the players got on the bus to return one of our mom's placed her hand on his knee and prayed and for him and the swelling started to go down. Mrs. Bannister said Thomas said she had to pray for him so he could play in the playoff game.
Well, the Dr. visit was good. He said in light of this being Thomas' senior year he would approve him to play if he put a brace over the bad knee. He did not ask him to get a mri since he probably will not be playing anymore games. This will be the very last game of his senior year. We are soo excited that he will indeed be playing. Life is good.

Our Little Sweeties

After 9 years we finally have a grandchild close by. When our oldest son and his wife started their family 13 years ago I was in heaven. Their first daughter was born on my husband's 40th birthday. We were so excited, they were living about 30 miles from us which was close enough for them to come over for Sunday dinners and we could babysit if they wanted a night out. It took about a month for them to be willing to leave her overnight but their dad and I just loved having our grandchild in the house. I remember Kim nursed her and put her to bed and she slept until they came back the next morning. Seven months later our youngest daughter Abigail, was born and she and Deanna were almost like sisters. Then the next year they added Kaitlyn to their family and what fun we had with 3 little ones on weekends. I remember keeping the children and working in our garden and they kept eating the strawberries even before they were ripe. Those were the days indeed. Sometimes we even kept our friends children and would have as many as 4 extra little girls running around and, bath time was a hoot.
The next year #3 Lydia was born and she came over on week-ends too. My friends would say boy are you a gluton for punishment, and I would say "you know someday I may not get to live around my grandchildren and I want to keep them as much as I can now". Little did I know when Lydia was 9 months old God was going to move us to Florida and for two long years we did not see their family. Since then they have had 5 more little ones but we have not had the pleasure of living close by since August 1997.
This past August God gave my oldest daughter a precious little boy and it is fun having a baby around again. When my son's family traveled to Tennessee in Sept. what fun we had with 10 little ones in the same house. It reminded me when I was little and all the fun my 6 sisters and I had growning up.

Fall Happenings

Here it is the end of October and boy have we been busy. I don't know what I would do with myself if we didn't have two teens in the house. To start with Thomas in his senior year has kept us busy with football. His team Franklin Classical Knights are the Tennessee Conference champions and ended their regular season last night with another win 56 - 20. They are the only team in the history of Franklin Classical School to be undefeated. It was a hard game the field was wet, it rained just minutes before kick off time, it was muddy and the winds turned out of the north to give it a little chill. The first touch down the other team got Thomas was too far to keep him from catching it. After that you just couldn't keep him stopped, he sacked the quarterback, tackled another guy who was trying to carry the ball and just was going strong when he came off the field after a hard tackle and sat out a play, he returned to the game and only to return to the sidelines complaining of his knee. He said his knee cap popped out of socket and popped back in on that play and he was sidelined with an ice pack to reduce the swelling that was beginning. He is on his way to get it checked out this morning, hopefully he will be fully recovered by this coming Saturday when they face the Alabama champions for the national title of 8 man football.
Meanwhile I should be in Chattanougha today but I am fighting a sore throat. Abigail and her dad are traveling there for a Black belt tournament. Hopefully our little ninja will return with some medals. This is her first one being a black belt.
We finished our week at the preschools with Harvest parties yesterday and they were so much fun. The children spent the morning decorating their treat bags, doing art projects, and filling their bags with treats after saying their letters, numbers, colors & shapes, Bible verses and blends. Everyone had a blast.