More thankfulness

All ten of my nieces and nephews: Ellie, Chloe, Kaylee; Ethan, Andrew, Abigail; Jasmine, Kiera; Oliver, Oakley
All of my brothers, sisters, brothers-in-law, and sisters-in-law: Ross, Audra, Scott, Garret, Kaydee, Brenda, Luke, Alexis, Gio, Reuben, Alisha, Herschel, Julia, Katie, Seth, Sara, Grace, Theodore, Nathaniel
Books, again :)
Pumpkin pie
White out
Mr. Potato Head (he showed up in a few math lessons this week)
Old movies
Best friends
Music by Owl City and by John Williams
Bright leaves
Calla lilies that are finally growing again (I was afraid I'd killed them :P )
Indian food
Spiritual white out, i.e., forgiveness; blotting out of sins by the blood of my Savior

Busyness

It's the most buu--uu-sy time, of the year!

In the next month or so, here are some of the things we have going on:

Three more To the Ends of the Earth missions class meetings
Small group Thanksgiving dinner
Christmas for Missionaries gift collection
Missions pie sale
Missions Leadership Team meeting
Lester!  She is coming out for a week! :)
Thanksgiving with Sara and her family
Church Christmas party
Church staff party
Small group Christmas dinner and white elephant event (we have our presents picked out already!)
Cookie baking night with small group girls
Thanksgiving lunch and Christmas Eve lunch at Amos' work
Present purchasing
Packing up and shipping all the presents to our mission partners
Trip to NorCal

Our schedule sounded a lot more hectic/crazy/packed when Amos and I were talking about all of these things just now...hmmm...have I left something out?!

Thankfulness

Well, it's November, so I guess it's time to say what I'm thankful for!

1. Amos
2. Books!  Picture books! Audiobooks!
3. Days off of school
4. My job working with Pinkie
5. $1.00 candles (I lit the lavender vanilla one today)
6. Photoshop and sites explaining Photoshop
7. My job as missions coordinator
8. Cranberries made into cranberry sauce
9. Black tea
10. God's Word

To be continued...

Sick sheep

"...men, when they are in love, invariably manage to look like a somewhat sick sheep.  If a girl is attracted to such a man she feels flattered by this appearance, and does not hold it against him; if she has no interest she dismisses him from her mind."

"I was puzzled...wondering what was the matter with him...I should have known by now that when a man looks like a sick sheep, completely bemused, stupid and unable to listen to what you say to him, he has, vulgarly, got it badly."

::Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

I just finished Agatha Christie's autobiography, and I thought it was great!  She was a very interesting person and a good storyteller, even in her autobiography.  There is a lot of controversy surrounding her, I'm discovering, but this is an engaging account of her life from her own perspective.