Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!  This year we traveled to Cloudcroft, New Mexico for Thanksgiving to be with Jake's parents because for the first time, we were given a week off school for Thanksgiving break.  Jake as adamant about leaving Saturday morning, although I tried to convince him to leave Monday morning for a few reasons. First, it would give me Saturday to put up some Christmas and just get ready. And my brothers were both flying in Sunday so I could see them a couple hours on Sunday. My feelings were hurt that he would not even consider it, even though it has been a couple of years since I saw them.  We stayed in Abilene Saturday and Sunday to visit with Tommie and Karen.  There was a youth dance Saturday night, so we left early enough to get the girls there to attend. It was difficult for me to get up Saturday morning at 4:30, especially since I did not get to bed until almost 2:00 am.  To prepare to leave Saturday, I had a list of things that I needed to accomplish each day, including school work and felt like I stayed on top of my game for the most part. Monday after we left Abilene, we stopped in Midland to have lunch with Jenny and Megan's families on the way to Cloudcroft. Tuesday morning we visited the Petroglyphs Park and a lava ruins park. Chris and Crystal arrived in Cloudcroft on Tuesday afternoon.  It has been a nice visit.

November Update

The last week of October, I was fortunate enough to get the flu, type B.  This was the first time that I have experienced the flu and was leery when people would say that it hit quick and your body aches, however, I stand corrected.  It was within a matter to two to three hours that I went from feeling fine teaching to barely being able to stay warm (mind you, I am seldom cold).  The doctor put me on five prescriptions and it took almost two weeks before I felt normal.  I was off work for a week.  Jake was a super star and covered everything at school for me. Halloween was the day, I ventured back to work and it was a day calling for storms that evening. After work, I went to get Charity's kids from the baby sitter, so hopefully I could let them trick or treat before the storms with my kiddos. We barely beat the rain but were able to let the kids knock on doors for about forty minutes.  November 2nd, I had scheduled a personal day to attend Christopher's field trip with him at Discovery Park.  My voice was still raspy and I had a cough, it was a good day to be with my little man. My dad's sister, Anna Cook, passed away on November 10th and we decided it was best to drive to Jackson to be with him for the day.  That morning the kids and I cleaned the church (Jake had a headache) and I was planning to attend stake conference and my meetings beforehand but felt that I needed to be with my dad, so that is what we did. Mom was out of town on a cruise so was not aware and despite how strong you think you are, losing a loved one hurts. The boys love going to Papa's farm and he had not gotten the eggs, so the boys were more than happy to get them. Those boys, especially Will, belong in the open land.