Yello!

The turkey is in the oven, the pies are cooling, and other assorted traditional Thanksgiving dinner dishes are in various stages of preparation. I thought this would be a good time to take a few moments to count my blessings and post them here in cyberspace for all eternity! 🙂 So on Thanksgiving Day 2006, these are some of the things I am thankful for:

• -a husband who is my best friend
• -three kids who continue to make me proud of them as begin to make their way through life as adults
• -extended family and friends that I genuinely enjoy
• -good health
• -my country and my faith
• -opportunities I have had to travel, see new places and have new experiences
• -and…the Harley, the hot tub, the laptop and wireless Internet 🙂

It’s been quite a while since I posted on here and I guess my excuse is, well, I’ve been busy! This past week was filled with football mania at school since we hosted a semi-final game in the state playoffs. Unfortunately, our team lost the game after coming back from a regular season 3-5 record and then getting three wins in the state playoffs making it to the semifinal round. Hosting the game meant that I got to prepare for and run the concession stand that served approximately 1,000 people! It made for a long and tiring night! The other part of my week involved taking kids to the State Student Council Convention in McCook on Friday. The meeting was fun and we heard some great speakers. We had a somewhat sobering experience on the way home though, when we were one of the first vehicles to come upon a head-on crash between a car and a pick-up. I spent 14 minutes on the cell phone with the 911 operator until help arrived. The front ends of both vehicles were pretty much gone and there was debris all over the road. The investigating officer called me last night to get any more information that I could give him about what I saw. He told me that the man in the car was dead at the scene and the woman driving the pick-up was arrested for second-offense DWI and possible involuntary manslaughter. Wow – what a tragedy for the man who was just driving down the road, like I was, and suddenly his life was ended by a person who chose to drive drunk! His life is over. I arrived at the scene just a minute or so later and…my life goes on.