Hello November ...

Things have been crazy busy here!  It's hard to believe that we have been in school for three months... that come Spring we will have another soon to be college student.

I am loving my job working with autistic kiddos. Our school schedule is
finally adapting to our schedule changes. Mike is doing a wonderful job 
co-teaching!

This is my favorite time of the year... I absolutely love Thanksgiving and Christmas. I love the emphasis on family, gratitude & joy. We have so 
much to be thankful for this year.  It has been a tremendously rough year. 

It's easy to become so focused on the negative things that we lose sight
of the positives.  Just today we took a couple hits.  Mike has a pretty bad infection on his leg from what we think was a spider bite.  And after years 
of dealing with the kids rheumatological issues and wondering if my issues were related...  I received my own tentative diagnosis Still's disease. From
the cancer fight and subsequent issues our finances are a mess. It is easy 
to become downcast.  But I am encouraged because God has proven 
Himself to be faithful!  

I love this quote by H.U.Westermayer~ The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~It reminds me that thankfulness is so very important. Because it takes our eyes off 
ourselves and puts them on God.  It reminds us how in the grand scheme
of things our God is big and our problems small, not the other way around.

Psalm 27:13 says ~ I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of
the LORD in the land of the living.  Thanksgiving isn't one day a year... 
it's a way of living everyday of the year.

What are you thankful for?