Thanksgiving...

Wherever has the month of November gone?? It was just yesterday we had the start of school, choir, youth group, etc. and now we're staring down Christmas in only a month. It's true what they say about time really flying when you're having fun... The boys' basketball season is well underway and they have their first games coming up pretty soon. Aaron's first game with his team, the Spurs (5th and 6th graders combined) is on December 1st at Franklin Middle School and Daniel will probably follow soon after.

Other extracurricular activities continue to go well with the boys progressing nicely in Wednesday night youth group (Daniel just got out of the "Start Zone" and qualified to wear the uniform T-shirt last week). I'm about to have the first dress rehearsal December 2 for the madrigal dinner group I'm singing with this Christmas season. I'm wearing period garb from the renaissance (I kind of look like a renaissance Hoss Cartwright...). I've been doing okay learning the bass, but find my time is short with all the running back and forth from one practice to another. Thankfully we still have a couple days a week where we don't really have any engagements, though that will change quickly with the start of hockey season at The Ralph. It's a young Prowler hockey team this year, so should be an interesting season of growth.

We've been enjoying our "new" vehicle lately since picking it up a couple weeks or so ago. It's really spacious with lots of room in the back for sports equipment and extra friends. The boys love the automatic sliding door on the passenger side and the automatic engine starter so it's toasty warm in winter. They've already helped personalize it with Prowler decals.

We'll be spending Turkey Day with friends of ours from church (a lot in one house, actually) and will hopefully find some time to play some flag football at Franklin after we eat (burn off a few calories, ya know). I really heard a nice thing after school today that set the tone for this Thanksgiving. I went to pick the boys up and as usual I went to Daniel's classroom first. Apparently one of the activities in class today was for students to say in class what things they are thankful for. Daniel's friend, Samuel, said he was thankful for his life. Other students said they were thankful for their pets, friends, etc. Daniel's teacher approached me on the way out of school today and informed me that Daniel's answer was, "I'm thankful for my Dad..." That response was a warm reminder of what Thanksgiving is all about, being thankful for the people around us rather than the "things" we have. May all who read this enjoy a safe, happy, and healthy Thanksgiving!