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Last night we went to our son Chaser's football banquet. He lettered for the first time as a varsity football player at the school we moved to last January after coming to Alabama from Arkansas. This was quite the feat for him as he had never played football, was in a field of 600 trying out for 80 spots and only 35 or so of them lettered. He was very proud and I am glad for him. Our tree is up and I am working on making the most out of the 17 days I will have the children in our home before they go to their other parents for the Christmas break. We will enjoy family nights of Christmas videos, driving to see the city Christmas lights, and a couple of evenings of each of their frends coming over to have a homemade meal together and to allow us to share time with them enjoying Christmas activities together. This turned out to be a huge hit with their friends, though we did simple things, popcorn balls, made ornaments, and had traditional food together. The high schoolers actually asked last night if I could do it again this year.....boys!....I loved that they enjoyed what we did for Thanksgiving week together....I had made a homemade "manly" meal of chicken fried steak, potatoes and gravy and green beans and rolls and then had asked them to help put together some things we were taking elsewhere...they loved helping and eating with us and it was a good thing. Son had been so embarassed for me to ask them to come over, but 5 boys together had fun even with the chore part of it. I am thankful today for a beautiful day outside, the tree lights that glow and the smell of paper whites blooming in the den. God is good.
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