family, funfetti, and festivities

well, here we are. it's almost december. what?

that can't be true. but it is. time is FLYING.

week to week. they go by so fast.

so, i've decided that mexico has the prettiest skies. pretty much every single day. and i don't know if i just notice the sky more here than i do at home? but i catch myself thinking 'man that sky is beautiful' almost everyday here. what's up with that?

brittan's family has been here this week. and it's been so so sooo great. they flew in on saturday and they stayed until today. they did SO MUCH for us. i can't even begin to explain it all but a few things they did is cook dinner two nights (spaghetti once and hamburgers the other) which was DELICIOUS. they finished the painting that we had not finished, they bought us lots of things of our house that we didn't even know that we needed. they loved us. brought some family time to mexico. and it was wonderful. they are amazing people. and we had lots of fun with them! we went to Teotihuacan the first Sunday they were here and saw lots of pyramids and an ex-monestary. the trip was really fun & we laughed a whole bunch. and took cool pics.

Thanksgiving was this week. It was super weird going to work on Thanksgiving Day. My kids didn't know about Thanksgiving but all month we had been talking about what we do in the United States to celebrate and what kinds of things we have to eat and traditions we have. So, on Thanksgiving, we had a small celebration in the morning with the 6th graders. It was nice. I sent paper home with my kids and they made Indian hats. We acted like the 6th graders were pilgrims and they were coming into our land (even though the 6th graders were too cool to make hats). Anyway, the kids enjoyed it and I thought it was neat teaching them a tradition we have that they did not know about.

Then, that night, our principal Miss Carol invited us over to her home for Thanksgiving dinner. HOLY MOLY. it was delicious. there was nothing that I did not like. it was all splendid. and we ate, and ate, and ate, and ate. and drank wine. and just talked. There was turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, hashbrown casserole, green bean casserole, pumpkin bread and pumpkin pie, cakes and oh so much more. (the special thing was that mexico doesn't sell pumpkin or fried onions so these things that we had were even better and made with more love) it was so nice of her to open her home up to us that were far away from home to help us feel more 'at home' on Thanksgiving. She really is wonderful.

we have a mouse in our house. we've bought two mouse traps and i'm hoping that we catch that sucker soon. i was watching tv the other night, just mindin my own business on the couch and he went scampering across the floor into the kitchen. and one day, brittan came home to find him walking across the KITCHEN COUNTERS. he needs to find somewhere else to go. i'd rather it be a roach. a mouse? yuckkk.

I'm not sure if I've written about my room yet.

but I love. love. my yellow room.

well, 24 days until I'm home for Christmas.

but, who's counting? :)

love ya'll.

-meggie