Thankful Thursday

1. The kids enjoyed going to a glow-in-the-dark dodgeball party for Xandir and his cousin, Alice last Thursday afternoon.

2. Last Friday, Cheri, Nadia, and I enjoyed a meal at Applebee's and a For King and Country Concert. We used a gift card for our meal and had free tickets because we were volunteers with Compassion. The only costs were the gasoline to get down to Hershey and back plus the fee to park, which I learned would have been $25 instead of $35 if I had prepaid for it online. Lesson learned! The concert was sold out, and 299 kids were sponsored that night! PTL! I got an email from the director of volunteers for the state of Pennsylvania, and he said it was my tenth time serving as a volunteer with Compassion. 

3. The boys enjoyed helping as candy runners at our church's Trunk or Treat. Oliver was Batman, and Ian used some things we had at home to create a Scrooge costume. Part of his costume included Oliver's suit jacket. Oliver LOVES to wear suit jackets, so I got him one at Target recently.

4. The VanHorns got 6 free tickets to see Daniel at Sight and Sound due to working at Knoebels. They invited Ian and Nadia to use two of their free tickets on Wednesday. They enjoyed spending that time with them! Since that meant Wednesday was going to be a day off from school, I invited Xandir over to spend a few hours playing with Oliver yesterday afternoon. 

5. Paul had lunch with Dave (former employee) today.

6. Because Ian's sleep study was postponed at the last minute, all five of us were able to help pack meals at Experience Missions for a few hours on Tuesday night. 

7. The weather has been unseasonably warm. Nadia would prefer it to be cooler, but I like warmer weather! Paul and I took Oliver and Milo trick or treating last night, and we didn't even need to wear a light coat! 

8. The man who purchased Kennedy Concrete took a one-year loan from Kennedy Concrete which was to be repaid by July 31, 2024. Up until this week he hadn't made any payments on the debt since December 2023. Thankfully, he made another payment this week which represented about 25% of the balance. Hopefully he'll pay the remaining 75% by the end of December.