Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a great Thanksgiving dinner at Ram and Sally's apartment Thursday evening. There were about 35 people altogether and Sally says she now knows she has room for 50. Frank Underhill spoke briefly about the history of Thanksgiving day and how it became a national holiday during a very dark time in American history. He also drew from a verse in Philippians and presented the Gospel in one simple sentence. There were a handful on people who are not saved yet. It was very good.

Friday night it started to snow and it didn't stop all day Saturday, but did turn to rain during the night. We've had over a foot of snow and this weather isn't supposed to stop for another day or two. There isn't church this morning due to the weather, power outages, etc. Our power was out for about an hour last night. The convenient thing is I was able to set my groceries in boxes on the patio and didn't have to worry about anything getting too warm. The inconvenient thing is that if the power is off for too long we don't have heat in the house and are without a fire place.

Timothy and Ivana shoveled and cleaned cars and fruit trees yesterday. Clay found a little short handled scoop and helped clear the snow on the drive way. I made a snowman and tried to solicit his help, but b/c he couldn't get a sure footing he was having a miserable time. When Timothy started a snowball fight his mood picked up quite a bit. That was fun to throw snow at each other!

He also discovered that the dog across the street from us can catch snowballs with her mouth and will eat them. He stood there for the longest time throwing chunks of snow to her and laughing hysterically.

My neighbor Mateja was out shoveling. Her husband is still sick and the milk truck was expected early this morning. She also wanted to go to Baby Eva's grave because yesterday would have been her first birthday. I wanted to offer to go with her, but I chickened out. I did invite her and her husband to our couple's dinner next Friday night. I hope he's better and that they decide to come.

We had broccoli soup for supper last night. Thad was sitting on Timothy's lap and Timothy told Clay that Thadeus can't have any soup. "Oh no." That reply surprised us a little. There was no emotion with it, just a polite comment.

We slept really well last night and are just getting up and around. I woke Thad up this morning at 6 to feed him and change his diaper. He didn't want to go back to sleep right away. We just sat there in the dim morning light talking and smiling at each other. He is so sweet! He's like syrup.