I broke my FOOT !

I was determined to get the Christmas decorations down out of the attic before going back to school after Thanksgiving Break. John had tons of leaves to rake in the yard, so it was Me doing it by myself. (mistake #1) I was in the attic going through boxes getting my favorite items down one by one instead of the big boxes that were harder to manage. I have my brand new big wooden reindeer that I got at the end of the season last year in my hand. I was walking down the attic ladder front ways (mistake #2) and lost my balance and went tumbling down the steps. I landed on my foot and new immediately that I had broken it. Thanks to Casey L. working at the Orthopedic Doctor was able to get me in first thing Monday morning. Now I have a BIG BLACK BOOT that I am sporting with all of my cute Christmas outfits. Oh, and the worse part is that it is my right foot, which means that if I drive with that lovely boot on, I am not covered by insurance. BUT I know that God was watching out for me because it could have been A LOT WORSE!!!

LOTS going on at the Pearson House!

I haven't updated in about a week, but that is not to say that nothing has been going on. First of all, this was REPORT CARD week for the girls. They both did VERY well. Taylor Grace made Principal Scholar, which she worked very hard to get, and Mallory did great on her's too. She doesn't have letter grades. K-3 grades on standards. I am so very proud of both of them.

John built our first fire in the fire pit for this winter. We all sat outside and had some good family time around the fire on Friday night. I love days when things are laid back and we can all just relax and "smell the roses".

Then, poor John woke up this morning all stopped up, the head that is! He hasn't felt good all day, but I got him some FREE nose spray at Rite Aide that has pepper in it and he said that it opened him up BIG time. Who knows if it is allergies or a cold. Whatever it is, I hope he feels better soon and especially before this weekend since we are going to the mountains with friends. In between naps, he took the dinning room seats off the chairs so that I could recover them. You read right, I was able to recover the dinning room chairs by myself. Well, I say by myself... I cut the material from tracing one of the pre-existing material from one chair and then I hope to have John or Grampa John help me get them stapled. They are turning out so pretty. It makes me feel so proud to have done something so domestic!

Now everyone is quite and asleep getting ready to start a new week.

Sensitive Taylor Grace

Taylor Grace had a friend over today that she said doesn't have many friends. The conversation about how the play date went started after supper. She and Mallory were eating some lemon bars that the little girl brought from home to share with us. Taylor Grace said that the little girl always brings things when she goes somewhere to be nice because she doesn't have very many friends and is trying hard to make friends. She then told me about the little girl buying TG and another little girl popcorn at the school fair, but didn't have enough money to buy some for herself. Taylor Grace started tearing up and so did Mallory when she was talking about how sweet this little girl was. We talked about being friends with everyone and to think how they would feel if they didn't have many friends. Taylor Grace said that she was going to "talk up" her friend so that more people would be the little girl's friend. The little girl is a sweet little girl, she is just a little different than most because she is really smart. The rest of the evening, I could tell that TG was thinking about it because she would add more to the story and later told me thanks for giving her tips on being friends with everyone. It is conversations like tonight that make me realize that her heart is in the right place.