I'm trying to not let my turkey day get in the way of my Thanks!

I received an email today and I wanted to quote part of it:

"On this national holiday, when we celebrate the sacrifices of our forefathers, and reflect upon our blessings, we should also take this opportunity to teach our children about our precious freedom.

Like the Pilgrims who founded our nation, we seek to raise our children according to our beliefs. But as Ronald Reagan warned, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

Of the many things I appreciate, I am thankful for our freedom for everyone to believe as they will. I appreciate the opportunity that Heavenly Father has given me and T to raise our precious children from Him as He wills.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We will post some photos of our Thanksgiving next week...and of Halloween....and of the past few months...hehe...been a little busy. :-)


R

Holiday Planner from FlyLady.net

http://flylady.net/images/HCJ2003.pdf


Okay, so T should be happy to hear, that I am actually going to be following this this year. I think I printed it out either last year or the year before... maybe even the year before. I just found it in my "get-organized" drawer yesterday. I pulled out my FlyLady books: Sink Reflections, Body Clutter, some Dr. Phil books: Relationship Rescue, and Ultimate Weight Solution, some Super Nanny books one and two of her books, and a couple of "good" books I have started by haven't finished.

Right now I am reading Five Love Languages of Children that I won through God's help as a door prize at MOPS so that I can make my children know I love them. It is pretty interesting, but when I gave the test to H. last night, he came up 4, 4, 4, 4, 4. That wasn't helpful. I knew he needs all the ways of showing love to him, but that was ridiculous. I told T. that he needs to give him the test. Maybe my inflections made him pick different answers. He also thinks too much about the answers. He would say, but if you said that 1st one, then I would get the other all of the time...so I pick the 1st one. So, I don't think that the results are accurate.

Anyways, maybe some of you also need some holiday organization in your Dec., so check out the link. :-)

R.

Wanna free snapfish photo book??????

http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/20081029_tows_messyhouse/7

You click on the get started and register for an account. You must do this by Friday @ 11:59pm. Then you must order the book by Sunday the 16th at 11:59 to get your free book.

2, 1, 0

That is the amount of accidents that our dear "I" has had the past 3 days. I think diapers are officially gone!!! Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!

Holiday Planner

Cute Thanksgiving planner from OceanSpray...so, there are quite a few cranberry dishes in it. It gives you choices of things you are interested in, then you can tell it to make the book for you as a .pdf, pretty fun...

R

And Yet Another

Well, now that all that election jazz is over, we can start a "family and friends" site.

Look next week for further exciting happenings at the Hansen Home.

Rachel