Thanksgiving

When I woke up Monday morning at Messiah, I realized we had had some snow the night before. However, most of it was melted by the time I started walking to my classes. Monday afternoon, Henry came to pick me up from school and brought me home. We went to Petsmart and bought a betta fish...who is STILL alive (a record, I do believe). We went shopping again on Tuesday, and Wednesday we went out to dinner and to a movie. Yesterday, we had Thanksgiving lunch here with my parents and brothers at noon, then at 4 we went to Henry's uncle's house where I met Henry's mom's side of the family (very small compared to our family!). Today Henry and I are boldly going where so many before us have gone...shopping on Black Friday. We are also going to get our Christmas tree today, whenever Dad decides we should. Then I am going to Henry's house to have yet another Thanksgiving dinner with some of our high school friends, and tomorrow we are leaving for Grandma and Grandpa's house before going back to school on Sunday afternoon.

Packages and Pictures

Today in the mail I received a long-overdue picture from Aunt Debbie (you both look wonderful, just so you know) and a package from Aunt Lois. In the package was a container of Tootsie Rolls (which are already gone) and a t-shirt that says "they can send me to college, but they can't make me think." I found it rather amusing.

Also, happy belated birthday to Sarah. I didn't find an urgent need to update because the birthday girl herself hasn't updated since September, so I didn't think she would miss my lack of birthday wishes. Seems like just yesterday I had my own sweet sixteen...these have been happy years :-)

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needless to say, you all have been doing very well

so on saturday mom came up and we went on a wal-mart shopping spree, to dinner at a diner that had its dessert menu written on notebook paper in pencil attached to a clipboard, and to see the movie "martian child."

when mom got here she gave me a surprise: a beta fish. so i got him on saturday and when i woke up this morning, he was dead. what is it with me and fish?!

silly uncle jason...though it did hold some delicious hot chocolate today