This
month started and kept going very quickly, but by the end of the month, we
found ourselves at home for 3 straight days without much to do except for
decorate for Christmas, hang out and play with some overdue time
together.
On Nov.
1st, I was off to Minnesota again to complete the computer
implementation I’ve been working on. I
was there for a week and it went pretty well.
With all of these projects there are always issues that come up and
things that need to be dealt with, but overall, it was a pretty impressive
accomplishment to get it done in less than 2 months. Now, there are still several hurdles to get
through, starting with another trip in December to see how they are doing, but
as I mentioned, the trip to Minnesota is pretty easy in comparison to other
Hurco trips. As I was leaving, both
girls had fevers and Sarah just flat out didn’t feel good. Randy and Anna were around to watch Sarah
since she was sick. The fevers,
daylights savings and my travel really affected the girl’s attitudes and
everyone was ready for me to be home and share some of the parenting
responsibility!
We
had our most social weekend as parents in a long time. We had babysitters 3 consecutive days and
really enjoyed ourselves. We went to
dinner with the Foulkes and to the Miles housewarming party. We went to our neighborhood’s progressive
dinner. Finally, we went to a Friends
Thanksgiving at the Steffey’s house. It
was good to see so many people over that weekend, especially since things have
been so busy for us. On top of that, it
has been great that our girls have no problem with us leaving them with babysitters, which
really helps us feel better.
During
the middle of the month, Deb went to Chicago
for some professional training. She
stopped by and visited the Ragos on Friday night and then enjoyed some typical
Chicago weather that brought about 6 inches of snow. Luckily, she didn’t need to leave her hotel
so it didn’t really affect her that much.
The girls and I spent the weekend hanging out around the house. Beth and Matt came over on Saturday morning
to allow me to do some work. Mom went to
church with us on Saturday evening and came over for dinner and a movie with
the girls. I took the girls over to Mom’s on Sunday to complete a project for
work and run a few errands since Deb got home on Sunday evening around
9PM.
We
were in Indy for Thanksgiving this year and we spent the afternoon and evening
at my mom’s condo. We were joined by the
Symmes, the Wahmans, the Dodsons, Mark and my mom. The girls enjoyed running around and playing
with everyone, including hide and seek with Uncle Frank. In our typical fashion we shot free-throws
and Debbie made all of her attempts. We
spent Thanksgiving morning catching up our yardwork outside since it was 60
degrees. With a rainy weekend, we didn’t
leave the house much except for church and enjoyed hanging out (including a movie night- with popcorn of course) and starting to
decorate the house for Christmas.
Sarah’s Things of the Month
We started swim lessons again this month. Sarah already
graduated to a swim class by herself so Deb no longer is in the pool with
her. She loves it and really excels at the
class. My traveling has caused Sarah’s “daddy
phase” to really get worse this month, but like all things, I’m going to assume
it will end at some point.
Allison’s Things of the Month
Allison really is doing well with swim lessons
also. She is letting her instructor
throw her in to the water at the end of class doing a “cannonball.” Allison does a pretty good job playing with her
sister even though Sarah is 2 years younger than her. We have been able to leave them alone for a
decent amount of time without them arguing too much.
A few more items from this
month:
- Deb was able to attend an open house at where Allison will be going to Kindergarten. Deb was able to get a lot of questions answered and I think felt pretty good about the experience.
- Deb and I went to the Colts vs. Broncos game which is probably Peyton Manning’s last game at Lucas Oil stadium. The Colts won a close game and Deb got us great seats from work.
- We were able to attend the Friends Thanksgiving at the Watkins house. It was a great time as it always is and we were able to catch up with the normal crew.
- We went to “thanksgiving” at school for the girls and enjoyed eating lunch with them.
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