Cold Showers and Cheesy Cokes

Since I last posted, we had to buy a new water heater! Here's a picture of Wes and Haley when we found out how much it cost! It was quite an experience taking "cool" showers this week and made us so thankful for hot water. Thank you Scott for helping Wes bring it home last night! It was installed today and Wes watched the guy use a blow torch with no gloves or mask...it's that kind of stuff that keeps my fellow ER PA's in business.

We had a fun weekend. The Goldens and Spencers and Wes's parents all came to our last GAC game!! We are so glad the season is finally over. I'm sure Denny's will miss our Friday late night meals though. This past Friday Nick had lettuce in his Coke and Chris had some cheese in his...Thank you Denny's for that bonus! Here's Nick playing with Wes's new gong he just bought for the GAC band.

Sunday after church, I went with my parents to the Marietta Christmas tour of homes. We had a great time and Wes was very happy to have Cobb Winds rehearsal while we were doing it.

Never too old to laugh about poo!

Why is poop so funny? I spend a lot of my day talking about it and I've never been embarrassed about it but sometimes patients say some funny things! I had a sweet old lady in her 80's this week tell me ever since she ate some spinach last week her poop has come out...with a burst! I usually am so good about not laughing but it was too funny. I had to giggle. Then she started giggling. It was great! Her son, probably in his 60's, sat in a chair in the corner like a bump on a log...I guess he didn't think it was funny. We loved it. What a good job God has given me!

363 More Days Until Black Friday

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend! Thursday we spent at my parent's house with both sides of my family. The Slick pig turkey was awesome and I am totally sold now on the idea! Here's picture of my dad's side of the family minus one of his brothers and his family who left before we broke out the old tripod for a family photo.

Friday I woke Wes up early to go to Walmart where we bought a memory card for $12.88-ahh, the rush of a good deal on Black Friday!! Then we joined my mom's side of the family for our traditional day-after-Thanksgiving-shopping-trip or also known as Wes's favorite day of the year to be part of my family! We love going shopping to get in the Christmas rush. When we were in middle school, my grandparents started taking the grandkids shopping on this day so we could pick out our own presents. My parents, and sometimes my aunt and uncle, join us too. We're still doing it even though we're all in our late 20's and two of us have husbands! In younger days, my grandad would secure a place in line as soon as we entered the Gap or American Eagle. He would let people in front of him for the hour we shopped explaining to each one what we were doing until we were ready to pay! Now since they are older, my grandparents like to pick a bench in the mall and we come find them with our purchases, but they are still such good sports and absolutely love the day! One year, before we all had cell phones, we used Walkie Talkies to communicate. My grandmother brings bags full of bottled waters and crackers to snack on. The first year Wes came, I'm not quite sure what he thought. He'd never been shopping on that day. We ended up at Value City about midnight that year and he kept leaning on racks and falling asleep. He said he kept wondering when the day would end. I think he's grown to like the day now though!

Yesterday morning we watched the Redcoats practice at Wes' school which turned out to be so fun! We had a great crowd of GAC families come out to watch. Here are some pictures of the band.

"Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever...to Him who alone does great wonders, His love endures forever." Psalm 136:1, 4

Keep your seats everyone...the Redcoats are coming!!!

That's right, the Redcoat band is stopping to practice at GAC on their way to the North Ave Trade School this Saturday morning. My students are pretty excited. Hopefully a lot of them will be in town and come to watch. The band director came by yesterday to check out the field and stayed long enough to conduct my 5th grade band class! They were on cloud nine.

why I'm a teacher: school holidays

Just when I think there's no way I can teach for 30 years (or 40+ at a private school), another holiday rolls around! Of course, I have plenty of my own schoolwork to do that I've neglected all semester. Anyone got a great idea for a research project? Add on the "honey do" list and the break is pretty much taken up - but it's nice to be productive working on things for Blakely and myself rather than for my job.

"Imported" Turkey

So yes, we are spending Thanksgiving with my family who, as Patrick calls it, imports their turkey...from Tennessee. I know this seems ultra redneck but the past few years, Patrick has brought our Thanksgiving turkey with him from a bar-b-que restaurant in Murfreesboro fantastically named ...The Slick Pig!! Apparently they smoke one heck of a turkey. This will be my first experience to savor the flavor. But as my dad always says, "we Moore's like our 'que" so it fits my family! I can't imagine driving 4 hours smelling a smoked turkey in the passenger seat but P doesn't seem to mind.
Here's a review I found if you ever happen to be in Nashville or Murfreesboro...
http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Columns/Dining/2006/11/02/Smoke_Em_if_You_Got_Em/index.shtml