The Blessings.

Aidan's prayer tonight. Thank you Jesus for Santa (he's made the cut every night for a while now not just at Christmas), and all the great stuff, (something else Aidan?) and the blessings you give us.

How precious. Blessings. Do we stop and think of all the blessings we are given? I know I don't enough. I am cranky when the van is in the shop (Monday), when I don't get enough sleep, or just when I feel like life isn't fair(umm, yeah a lot). But, man...I I don't want it to be just thankful at thanksgiving or those cliché times but as a lifestyle. You know those people, that are just joyfully contagious? I want to be that. Not in 20 years from now, but today. Anybody else with me?

The Jeep.

So as many of you know Aidan has been going to speech therapy for a little over a year now. Currently he is loving it but a while back we were having a rough go with him cooperating, behaving, etc. So as an incentive we make a chart for him and every week that he worked hard for Miss Patti he colored in a box. The chart was for a jeep. And the whole time I'm thinking, dang, how are we going to afford one of those jeeps? So I had been watching on Craigs List (online classifieds) and go figure I found one last night that I emailed on, and today he filled up his chart! So I drove and drove and drove to this person's house (which Aidan called the desert, also known as Thornton) and picked up the jeep for our hard working boy. I love it. You can just see the excitement on his face. What a guy. And Micah was happy to ride along. So now we made a new chart for a TRAILER to add to his jeep. Keep working buddy, we believe in you.

Daddy would be proud of his jeep boys.

One proud boy with brother in tow.

And they are off. Someday it will be on the real road.

Full.

Life is full. I can't believe a week has gone by already. Last week was full with a Christmas Party for Aidan's friends, the parade of lights, Jeremy's work Christmas party, and a leadership meeting as our church gets ready to move forward to lease to own a new building.

Which means, this is the time of year where your schedule gets crazy full and then you forget...oh yeah this is the most wonderful time of the year. More like the most stressed, the most tired, the most... Sad, I overheard somebody saying I just need to get through the holidays. Is that really how we want to treat Christmas as a job? I know with the stress of shopping for the perfect dress and getting all our decorations out and perfect, we lose the magic. I'm learning to let go, my tree still doesn't have decorations, the Christmas cookies for the party were out of mix, and I went to bed with dishes in my sink. Oh well. The stress isn't worth it when it sucks life out of you. Can I learn this at 30 already? We will see :)

Pictures from last week posted soon. I had good intentions. Happy Monday.

Countdown to Christmas 22 days!