October - Diane

Dear Family,

I am late again, but with good reasons at least I think they are good reasons.  We will start with my spiritual thought.  This year I have given a lot of thought to being grateful/thankful for the blessings in my life.  I especially enjoyed conference this time and hearing Pres Monson talk about gratitude.  I like the "attitude of gratitude".  A sister in our ward was assigned to talk about gratitude last week and she challenged us all to say just one prayer where we asked for nothing, just thanked Heavenly Father for all that we have.  Let me tell you that is hard, where do you stop?  I have so many things in my life to be thankful for, the list just grows and grows.  I guess I could sum it up by saying I am thankful for the Gospel in my life, without it I would have nothing.  All my blessings come through the Gospel.

Ok, Steve, well he is up to the same old thing, work, work and more work.  He still hates his job and the people he works with.  We need to get out in the yard and get it ready for winter and get the garden finished for the year.  He did burn my burn pile a few weeks ago, that he had been promising me for years he would do it in the spring and then spring would come and he would say he would do it in the fall, it is finally gone, so now I can start another one for him.

Me, well I did not get to teach tax classes this year so money is really tight, don't have that money that we have grown accustom to having and when it is not there, it is a struggle.  Looks like I probably will not be able to teach in Dec either, so it is going to get even tighter around here.  At least I have free time to do all that I need to be doing for my children.  A blessing, yes and no.

Brenda is doing the same thing.  Work and school, work and school.  She is starting to get really tire of school and can't wait to get out and get started with her life.  Most days she comes home saying how much she hates WalMart.

Christopher was out in CA last month to see his sister and the day he returned home, his mission call came.  I took it with me to the airport to pick him up and then we went to Steve's office and he came to the parking lot.  We called Clara Marie and Brenda on the phones and we all listened as Christopher read his call.  If any of you don't know already, his call is to the Utah SLC mission.  He enters the MTC on 17 Nov.  He will be able to attend the temple on his p-day as the SLC is in the mission and he will also be able to attend conference if he can get tickets (I don't know how that works, but I am hoping he can actually sit in the conference center for conference).  I would have never thought he would be called to a Utah mission with so many family members living there, but there must be a good reason for him serving there.  He is excited and ready to go now.

Well I guess that is enough for now, I did not sleep well last night, so I am off to bed.
We love each and every one of you.
WV Bollscwheiler's