Thankfulness October

glow sticks and friends!

Glow sticks+friends+trampoline=simple goodness!

It's a little strange that November is already waiting at the door!  It does seem as though this year is passing rather quickly.  But October was a full month with lots to be grateful for!

1. Cozy fires to keep the house warm
2. The opportunity to try out "teaching" by teaching the memory verse to the local school kids at the weekly after-school program, Champions.
3. Kids who impress me by learning their verse and saying it with pride.
4. Skype for keeping up with friends from a distance.
5. The postal system!!
6. A day just for celebrating Mom's birthday
7. Progress in school
8. Exercising at 5:30 am
9. A clean house...or else that's at least in progress!
10. Coffee  (yum!)
11. Colorful, falling leaves
12. The incredible rain today, which made for some blissful happiness
13. Long walks and good talks
14. Adventurous drives in the mountains
15. Intense desserts made by an even more amazing sister
16. Pumpkin everything that is the best sign of fall
17. The ability to be with a number of different old friends last weekend for the first time in a very long time.
18. New memories made with old friends.
19. Good conversations and laughs had with friends, remembering past times together and catching up on the present.
20. Time change tonight which will make the clock on our room wall be in the right time zone again.  (Yes, we have neglected to change our clock during the whole of daylight savings.  Only occasionally were we tricked into believing the wrong time.)

What a happy little friend!