Oh, So Thankful

One for the record books... this was the FIRST year we've ever spent Thanksgiving Day in our own home. AND, we hosted it! We had fun times with Bekah and Kevin, and Jacob and Liz. We're so thankful to have some family out here with us and I'm going to be prideful and say that the six of us really know how to cook some great Turkey Day Dishes! We definitely did not go hungry, actually helping ourselves to thirds and fourths, and then having leftovers for dinner as well. We discovered Jacob is a binge eater and hides his extra helpings in his head. hmmmm...weirdo.

Eden was thankful when she saw the last of the leftover turkey on Saturday evening. Apparently, she only likes the thought of eating turkey, and not so much actually eating it. She definitely doesn't take after her mother on that aspect. We're thankful that she's now recovering from her first battle with pneumonia. I feel like a terrible mother letting my daughter come down with pneumonia. But I'm thankful for Alexander Fleming *(see note below)* and his amazing discovery of penicillin.

Salem decided to spend his Thanksgiving Day by running a fever for the entire day. Again, thankfully, he's over that now and seems to be on the upside of his first cold.

Brandon is thankful that he's got two weeks left of class for this semester. Wow that's gone quick! He's pretty busy wrapping things up for a presentation, book reports, and finals.

And I'm thankful that we get to spend over a month in Texas with family for the Christmas holidays. Soooo looking forward to not having to cram all of our family visits into one week!

But most of all we're thankful for Christ and his blood on the cross allowing us to be adopted children of God!

*I took a serious shot to my ego this evening. After posting this I let Brandon read it, like always and he said, "Hmmm, I didn't know Marie Curie discovered penicillin." My response, "Yep!" Him: "are you sure?" Me: "Uh yeah. I paid attention in 7th grade."

So after that tacky response, he googled it. Apparently, I've gone the last 15 years (and majored in Chemistry) under the impression that Marie Curie discovered the cure-all of penicillin. She in fact, did not. Sad day. She actually discovered radiation. Still cool. But not my point.

Anyways, this Fleming character made the discovery of penicillin on the mold stuff, blah blah blah, you know the story.

All that to say, that I edited the blog post above to make me not sound like a fool...at first it said Marie Curie. I think Madame Curie sounds so much cooler than Fleming Dude, but whatever.

Ok. Science lesson over.