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Well I wasn't feeling good yesterday afternoon nor today, think I picked up a stomach virus from the neighborhood kids. Some afternoons we watch several of them when their parents can't get them after school. Anyway now I am WAY behind on my list so I need to get busy. Oh before I get started Prayers please for a family up here, their son Cody was killed in Iraq last week. He is 19 and graduated with Michael and his brother (Ethan) and Matt are friends. His brother Ethan is just so hurt and sad right now. They had a memorial at the school Monday and it was so sad. Cody was a big part of the band and choir when he went to Gordon Central and the band played a really sad song that had everyone in tears and then the choir sang a song that Cody had done for a competion while at the school and placed Superior on. His whole family was there and hundreds of kids from the school quitely lined the football field and adults in the blechers. Just seeing the sorrow of the family just broke my heart and convinced me more our boys should be home. They are only dying in Iraq and WHY??? Even if they start the draft back up I Will Not let my boys go. Cody joined the reserves after high school so he would have a way to go to college and now he will never go to college and I don't know how long it will be before his brother and best friend will feel like getting on with their life. I just wanted so bad to go over there and hug them all, it is so hard to see someone in so much pain and you can't do anything to relieve that pain. That is the first time I have been to a memorial or funeral or anything where someone so young died and the first Iraqi death that has touched so close to home and this is a very small town and I hope I never have to go to another one. Maybe I am wrong but this war just seems so much like Vietnam, like we are leaving American kids over there to get killed and that we can not change anything. They hate each other over there and us being there is not going to make them start liking each other. It is not our job as Americans to heal all the worlds ills. Ok sorry about that, Monday was just so emotional, maybe because those boys are the same age as my boys and my boys are so very close to each other that if something happened to one the other would be lost, maybe forever. On to the list.

85. I am thankful my boys are not in Iraq nor going to Iraq.
86. That Jerry is on vacation 32 days out of Nov. and Dec. starting the 18th of November.
87. That we have the money to get my kids what they want most for Christmas this year without having to put it on a credit card.
88. I am thankful for my friend Joyce.
89. I am thankful Dot told me what a blog was and to start one.
90. I am thankful we got rain today (but would love some snow God).
91. I am thankful Matt is going on a college tour with his business class Friday.
92. I am thankful for the quiteness of the house at this hour.
93. I am thankful for the beautiful birds that eat from our feeders in the summer.
94. I am thankful my dad is feeling better.
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95. I am thankful my mom understands us wanting to stay home this Christmas.
96. I am thankful Pea is having a candy give away contest.
97. I am thankful my boys are very best friends.
98. I am thankful Jerry takes such good care of me when I don't feel good.
99. I am thankful for nice warm bubble baths.
100. That Jerry and I like to watch the same shows on TV for the most part.
101. That we curl up on the couch to watch them.
102. For our 5---4-wheelers even though we have no where to ride them over here
103. That we could sell them for a couple of golf carts that we can ride over here.
104. That Lacy loves her drama class.
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105. That I have a dozen good books to read in my bedroom.
106. That I got a really funny, sweet card from Tina Saturday in the mail.
107. That I got a very sweet card from Donna in the mail today.
108. That my bills are now all in the mail and paid for this month.
109. That Einstein's foot is finally well, that's my cat.
110. That Hemmingway has finally quit being so fussy to the other cats. (Matt's cat) and even though he is a boy I swear he goes through PMS every month. The cat not Matt.
111. For my beautiful bird book Jerry bought me this fall, I love looking at the pictures and reading about the different birds.
112. I am thankful my neighbor is giving me a peanut butter pie tomorrow.
113. I am thankful I have chicken and dumplings on the menu for tomorrow night

114. I am thankful my mother in law taught me how to make her dumplings
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