The Green Family

Hi,

I posted the pictures of Muff and Ruff so another family could see them. Caroline and Lillian Jerred stopped by to help us figure out the correct gender of our kitties. We have to change their names to Muff and Fluff. I had posted an add on our homeschool message board to say we had two kitties to give away. We met the family on Saturday and gave them our kitties. Muff and Fluff are the Christmas presents for a 6 year old girl this year. They will be inside kitties and very loved.

Well, to catch you up on our lives....Halloween was fun. Hannah was a pioneer girl, Natalie a wind princess and Caleb was a cowboy. We went to both of my grandparents and walked through the town of Malcolm for our trick-or-treating.

The girls have started horse lessons with our neighbor. They are learning a lot and loving it! They go one afternoon a week.

We spent the weekend before Thanksgiving in Atkinson with most of the Kliewer family. We were up late every night, laughed a lot and just enjoyed being together. It was fun to visit our old church and see friends. We spent one afternoon with Uncle Neal and Aunt Shirley.

Thanksgiving Day we were in Columbus. We ate too much, I took a nap in a nice big chair, had a nice long afternoon of Mexican Train Dominoes, and laughed a lot. The day after Thanksgiving Kurt, Caleb and my Daddy went to Grandpa Mel and Grandma Glema's to watch the game. Mom, the girls, Terri Whitney, her girls and I did our normal antique shopping and had lots of fun. Mom pushed me around the antique mall in a wheelchair because I was having contractions. :-)

November also included visits with other friends, school, painting the baby's room, and just regular life stuff.

December has been full so far. I go to my midwife appointments every other week and I have been to the chiropractor more often. We don't have Good News Club or horse lessons this month. We are shopping, reading Christmas stories, decorating, baking, sending out cards, ordering and wrapping presents and the air is full of surprises. The "candy fairy" comes every morning to put three pieces of candy in the kids Christmas countdown tree. We drank our first eggnog last night and started watching Elf. Saturday night we will meet most of the Kliewer family in Grand Island to go to the Singing Christmas Tree. Last year Kurt and I went so we are excited about taking the kids this year. Sunday night we are going Christmas caroling with friends. We will go to both sets of my Grandparents and some of their friends. Next week we will finish our baking and food planning. Next weekend we will go to Topeka to celebrate Christmas with my Mom and Daddy. Bosco and Jake will have a fun Christmas together I am sure. Christmas Eve we will go to the service at our church. We will have our own family Christmas morning. Brad and Susan will get here in the afternoon. We will have our traditional steak and lobster dinner with them in the evening. The Saturday after Christmas we will all travel to Columbus for a day of visiting. Wow, it will be a fun month!