Missing my far away family and friends

I love Nancy and Brian's blog, and I'm excited to see Janet on here too. This place is so much better than myspace. Hopefully we can all start sharing on here soon. Anyway, I've decided I want to keep my friends and family in touch with what's going on in VA too. So here's what's going on with me and Christion.

We had a good Thanksgiving. Christion spent the day with his dad's family, and I missed my parents, and my sister and her family, and the Fichter's in Italy (or should I say Prague) dearly. Fortunately, I still have my Nora and Juan here to keep me sane. I don't know what I would have done without the comfort and love from them this past weekend.

Me and Nora made our first Thanksgiving dinner with the help of a wonderful coach -- her mom. Thanks to mom's and Shel's wonderful recipes, everything turned out great -- except the bird! I think we may have needed to thaw it out more. But all things considered it went very well. After we stuffed our bellies we visited the Brent's (Coleman's guardians) and played Catch Phrase. If you've never played this game it was a lot of fun. Later on that evening (or should I say at 1am Friday morning) me, Juan, Nora and Brian went on a shopping rendezvous at Potomac Mills. But, the boys couldn't hang so we kicked them to the curb at 4am and left for Leesburg Outlets. We were tired and cold, but we had fun. It reminded me of all of the Christmas shopping excursions I've had with Shel and Janet... Those were the good old days.

Over the weekend we decorated our Christmas tree (compliments of Auntie Lolita). It's a humble little tree, but I really like it. I bought a wreath for the front door too. I'd like to decorate outside as well, but you'll have to stay tuned to see if that happens and to see all of my Christmas pics too.

Christion is doing wonderful in school. I'm volunteering as a teacher's aid for his music class in the morning before school and I love it. Next week they have their Christmas concert. I'll try to share some videos of it with all of you.

School is going good for me too. Some of you already know that I've transferred to Park University and I'm really liking it. I still have a long way to go, but the important thing is that I'm going.

That's all I have for now. I'll check back with you soon.