We had some friends come over today and make/decorate cookies with us! It was a lot of work, but a ton of fun. I'm realizing that as much as I have relaxed in the area of planning ahead that with as many kids as we have in our family there are still things that I would never be able to do spontaneously and enjoy (it's the "SJ" in my myers-briggs personality)...such as have more kids in my house and make cookies. I had the plan in my head from last week (since the kids have the entire week off) that we would have our friends over and make and decorate cookies. I got the recipes from my good friend, Kelly (cookies, and icing)...made the dough the night before and went from there! The cookies were delicious...the kids had a blast. It took us almost a total of 3 hours to get it all done, but we weren't in any hurry and the kids were able to get out and ride their bikes or play together while they were waiting for cookies to bake. 
The finished product!
Matthias is sick today and happened to nap all morning while we were working, which worked out really well because when he's been awake today he has only been happy with me holding him. Needless to say, I'm exhausted...and a little sugared out on eating too many cookies...but it was a very enjoyable day. We had a lot of fun with our friends.
Other than a week off of school not much is going on with us. I've been a little depressed about Thanksgiving coming up because we haven't been able to find anyone in town who doesn't have family to be with...I'm so used to Thanksgiving being a time where there are just a lot of people around and you eat and talk and eat some more and watch football and eat some more....it will definitely be a different Thanksgiving for us.
Leighton is doing really well. She is pretty much back to normal. She's had her 14 days of tb meds and so has gotten to where she only needs the antibiotics 2 times a week...they'll come by on mondays and thursdays with her medication for the next six months. We continue to wait for her doctor's appt. next thursday...she'll have to have had no food or drink from midnight the night before (which is going to be a challenge for her in the morning since she runs to the table climbs up to her seat and says "cereal" first thing in the morning) for her ct scan that morning. Our hope is that everything will be totally back to normal...that the lymph node will not be enlarged anymore. Please continue to pray with us. And while you're praying, would you please pray for our friend, Angie? She is a friend from Virginia who is the mother of 3 and has found out recently that she has cancer. Again. When everything with Leighton was happening and there were so many unknowns I realized that I was actually experiencing what so many people experience in terms of my world stopping. Everyone's lives were moving on, but mine was at a stand-still because my little girl was really sick and might have the c-word. By God's grace, we are only dealing with tb and have been able to move on...but in the midst of that whenever I hear of someone being sick or having cancer a little bit of my world stops....it's terrifying and another testimony to the fact that we are fallen people in a fallen world....and yet, this is not our home...and our hope is not in this world...so please, pray for Angie that she would have an eternal perspective in this earthly trial...and that the things that she knows are true in her mind would be known in her heart...that she would be able to struggle through her circumstances well.
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Awww, Karen, your kids are beautiful! :) I continue to pray for Leighton's full recovery and that the CT scan would show nothing but a healthy little girl.
Thank you for your prayers and for lifting me up so faithfully... I am humbled. Always in HIS grip!
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