A Belated Happy Thanksgiving from Appleton

I hope all of you are winding down from a good Thanksgiving weekend. We are going through post-Packer depression with the forecast of 3-5 inches of snow. I guess the good news is that we bought a new snow blower this afternoon, so that should help a little. And, it has an electric start, so I will never have to use it! Um, ah, well, maybe I won't have to start from scratch at 8 PM as often as I used to.

Paula, Lydia and Jessica have all been sick the last few days. Paula lost her voice, but she is doing better today. Her voice is back just in time for school, even if I have been ordered to pray for a snow day tomorrow :)

Yesterday I took Lydia to the Kids Museum downtown for a few hours. It was pretty cool, and in two hours I think we only saw about half of it. My favorite part was the fire truck. Lydia put on boots, a hat and a coat and drove for awhile. If I had only brought the camera......

Hannah has been putting her room downstairs back together, and getting a lot of rest. It was good for her to get a chance to see her friends this weekend. She is going to Taylor for a few days late in the coming week. In particular, she is going to the Silent Night basketball game. It is a tradition where the students are silent until the Taylor team reaches a certain score, and then they go nuts for the rest of the game. Hopefully she can fill us all in on the rest of the details in a week.

We put our Christmas tree up in 7 minutes. I love this new tree we bought last year. It has 4 sections plus the stand. Just stack them together and plug it in. Paula and I did some shopping at Target and Shopko on Friday night. No waiting in line at either store. Paula and Hannah did a little more shopping yesterday afternoon, too.

Daniel is still working. He was supposed to be off last week, but somebody else didn't show on Monday so he got called to work for the week. He will go back up by Eagle River to work for a few more weeks, and then they have 2 houses back here. He is pretty happy that they have work on the horizon. He was not nearly as optimistic a few weeks ago.

Love to all of you,
Gary