Happy Thanksgiving!

Our house has been busy busy since the start of the school year. Emily and Alyssa are both enjoying their teachers and doing well. Madison is working hard and keeping us all on our toes. I cannot believe she is home almost a year! WOW. Emily is having fun in dance and is happy her cousin Hannah is in her class this year! She loves Girl Scouts and helped coordinate a Care Bag drive full of toiletries and snacks for those in need. We are distributing them at a local soup kitchen tomorrow morning! Alyssa is enjoying Girl Scouts too. She has a great leader and a nice group of girls in her troop. The girls and families worked hard filling the Care Bags and will also be there with us tomorrow. She had to make a choice this year about whether she wanted to be in soccer or gymnastics. There is a limit to how much running around I can do with three kids. She chose to leave soccer this season and give gymnastics a try. She LOVES IT. I have to say she is really good too! She can't wait to go each Friday night. She continues to study for her First Holy Communion and is excited for that on May 11th! Madison keeps busy with OT, PT, and speech after school. She loves to go and for now this is her after school activity lol. She is also enrolled in Girl Scouts which meets during school at recess. It is a great compromise for me. I can't fit another thing in after school....and she is tired! We fared well during Hurricane Sandy. We lost power for almost two weeks, but had no damage to our house. Some friends and MANY in our community weren't as lucky! It will be a long time for many of them to rebuild, if they even can. Our beaches have sustained significant damage too :-(. It reminds us even more of the things we are thankful for! Pictures to come!