Cant Sleep

It's 3:30am here, I've been up since about 1:30 and I just cant sleep. I decided I might as well update you all on our Thanksgiving since I'm up. lol

Our guests didnt actually arrive until Thurs morning, a blessing from God because I was feeling a bit stir crazy on Weds still not being ready for their arrival and not being allowed to do anything about it. They are a wonderful couple, I'm so glad they are staying with us.

Well I made an apple pie - cheated the whole way, roll-out refrigerated dough and canned apples LOL - but that's about all I could manage. Dennis made his mom's potato salad too and we brought those into church.

What an amazing church we have here! I'm telling you! I dont think I can describe how thankful we are to have this place, this refuge. It is really and truely like a family, like having a bunch of brothers and sisters.

There was TONS of food, everything you can think of for Thanksgiving. I even tried Sweet potato pie, can you believe I've never had that before?! haha! YUM! I dont know what took me so long to try it. Unfortunately my appetite, as well as my ability to sleep, have all disappeared lately. All the food was so delicious, I was sad I could only have a few bites.

The boys had a great time! Ryan was eyeing the food (the desserts in particular) from the second we walked into the room, "mama, can we eat now?" lol There were a ton of kids to play with and they opened up the auditorium for all of them to run around and work off all that sugar. OH! and I almost forgot, all the children sang some songs infront of everyone - the boys included. We took pictures but I havent downloaded them from the camera, I'll post them later.

By the end of the evening, everyone was standing around the piano singing hymns. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Tomorrow (or I guess I should say today), everyone is meeting at the church in the morning for breakfast and then they're all heading out to the Ludwigsburg Christmas Market (Weihnachtsmarkt), which is supposed to be one of the really big and beautiful ones around here - one I've been looking forward to go to. Not only that, but the children are all staying behind at the church so the adults can enjoy themselves. UNFORTUNATELY, I have to miss out on all this fun. I'm SOOOO bummed!! I've been looking forward to these Christmas Markets since... um... I dont know... 1997 or so. LOL (...long story, came to Germany that year to go to a Christmas market and we never found a good big one...) That's ok though, there'll be other years, sigh, baby comes first. Dennis and the boys are going though, hopefully he can get some pictures and some nice stuff there. Maybe, after I get some rest, I'll put up a few Christmas decorations at home while everyone's away. I wont over do it, I promise. There's not much to put up right now anyway, we dont even have a tree yet! lol