Poor Caleb thorw up approximately 8 times last night. And Mama is terribly stuffy in her head. But, we're rolling right along with cleaning and decluttering in response to the Kent Sutherland family coming this Thursday!

Yesterday we went to our church's Thanksgiving dinner which was delicious! I got to visit with Catherine L. play spoons with a very roudy group of Jr. Highers, watch Samuel start a chess game with Johran (it drives me nuts that I can't remember how to spell his name!), sang a couple of songs, and cleaned up.

CONGRATULATIONS TO COURTNEY AND KALI!!!!!!!

They're expecting a little bundle of joy in June! *sniff* That's just too wow!

On that kind of note... Ginger is not very far from her due date, which is December 1st, I believe.

Surely I have something to write about...Oh yes, last Sunday (not yesterday, but the one before that.) Dad, BJ, Samuel and I went to evening service. And they had a special speaker about missions, and afterwards the pastor asked people who felt called to missions to come forward and make a public declaration. Back in May God gave me a call to Israel, but I hadn't told anyone about it outside my family, and I'm not sure why. But, now it's public, so all of y'all can pray for me, because it's a way to Israel from here!

Samuel is working with Mr. Schooler again today, putting the shingles on. We had a cold front blow (And I mean BLOW!!) in last night, Samuel does not do well in the cold, and Mr. Schooler (65) has a cold, so they need your prayers.

Saturday night was Dickens on the Broadway. It's a thing that Claremore has every Holiday season, where they block off a block of the old 66 route (in the cutesy, antiquey (is that a word? (is it okay to have parantheses inside a paranthesis that is inside paranthesis?) ) part of town) and have a 1860s dance. One of the professors from RSU has a bunch of costumes that he lends out to the students, but you don't have to be in costuem to come. I didn't have any decent pants clean, it was too cold for a skirt, and I wasn't planning to dance, so I came in BJ's jeans and my boots. But, of course I ended up dancing, and regretted the boots. I didn't konw the waltz, but I was dancing with Joshua (as I did the whole time) so it didn't matter. Then they did it with one guy dancing with the broom, and when the music stops everyone switches partners and someone else ends up with the broom. We made a deal with Rachel and Benjamin Matheney that we would just stick close together and just switch with eachother. A couple of times we got confused and had Benjamin and Joshua together and Rachel dancing with me. And only once did someone break up our foursome. Then we did one where all you do is walk in a big circle, 16 steps walking, 16 steps galluping. And then we did the Virginia Reel. IT was fun, but out of 6 couples only 2 of is knew how to do it, and Joshua and I were the second couple. Mr. and Mrs. Boyles did an excellent job of teaching us how to do it, while we were doing it. :)

And now I must get back to the math! (Alas, I do not get the week off, like the younger kids, if I intend to finish my book before January.)