More thanks...

Thanks to Tom and Darren and late night games of India rails...this should include thanks to Jenn, who doesn't like board games, but doesn't mind sharing her husband with us.

Thanks to GCSchool and the folks at Grassroots who held back some of the best things from their closing out yard sale...since our shipment of household items is about one month late I don't know what we would have done without useful things for the house!!!

Thanks to Val and Margie, who love us just because...

Thanks to May...who popped by one day with ice cream, blueberries and a smoothie maker...

Thanks to the inventor of salsa and chips...I am indebted to them for the way that particular snack makes life seem so much better.

I think thinking of the thanks I could give is helping ease my perspective into a new slant.

We decided to spend money on the girls...so they get music lessons, the younger three get dance and R gets to join a choir. Happiness is abounding in their worlds! They may have to eat rice, potatoes and beans for the next few years, but at least they will get a chance to try their hands at the things they feel passionate about.

Oh yeah...and I am thankful to be at Burwood estates...we raise free range children here.