Thankful Tuesday

1. Paul picked up a free Schwan's pie today from our State Farm agent. She was giving them away to anyone who stopped in today. I plan to make another pie tomorrow so we'll have enough for Thursday.

2. We had dinner at Cracker Barrel tonight using a gift card we were given almost a year ago. It's always nice to have a night off from cooking!

3. Nadia was inspired to write a list of things she is thankful for today, and aside from asking me how to spell a few words, she did it all on her own. Her list included 30 different things or people!

4. Shutterfly posted a coupon code today for a free 8x11 calendar!

5. My sister and her husband and seven kids arrived at our house this evening! They had planned to come tomorrow night, but in light of the snow we're supposed to get tomorrow, they came a day earlier than expected, which is fine with us! They hadn't been to our house in almost five years. They would have come up here in the summer of 2012 but didn't because I was in the hospital most of the time they were in the US. Joel is sleeping in Ian's room, Julianna and Jenna are sleeping in Nadia's room, and the other six members of their family are sleeping on the main floor of our house (we have two queen size sofa beds down there plus Nathan is on an air mattress and Micah is in his car seat). We are looking forward to spending the next three days with them (two days at our house and one day at Hersheypark).

6. Oliver woke up at 5:50am, which I deemed too early so I didn't get him right away. Lately he has not been going back to sleep when this happens, but he DID go back to sleep pretty quickly this morning, and he slept until 7:20! WOOHOO! Ian came into our room at 6am, but he fell back asleep in bed with us. I am up by 6:15 almost every day so it was nice to stay in bed until 7:00 this morning.

7. I found out today that our church is going to offer a gym class for homeschoolers on Fridays from 10:00-11:30 during the months of January and February! I signed Ian and Nadia up for the class. They'll have three weeks of basketball (taught by a coach from Bucknell), three weeks of volleyball, one week of dodgeball, one week of pickleball (I have NO idea what that is), and one week of self defense taught by a jujitsu teacher. It only costs $25 for nine weeks of a ninety minute class!