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Kallie was dying to eat up one of the turkey legs Jim had left after carving!

I am so bummed. I had videos of each of the kids and I can't seem to get them to load on here. AUGH! They were pretty precious too. So sorry. I will maybe keep trying. Let me know if anyone has any advice. I made them the same way I have done the other ones on here. I'm thinking it might be an issue of length. For some reason, if I take one that's over a minute, it doesn't cooperate for me. But if it's under that, I can usually get it to load. Oh well. I guess my pics will have to do.

The Mitchell news......

Let me fill you in on Jim, since his story seems to be the longest! First of all, he didn't get the position that he interviewed for. The other top contender was offered it. What they have done, though, is offered Jim the store that the guy who took the position currently runs. It is located in the Twin Cities. It is Bauer Built's top store. It isn't quite the promotion Jim was looking for, but it is definitely a move we're considering. Originally I was pretty excited to possibly be moving to WI, but now I might even be in the Cities! Pretty crazy. The next step is for Jim to go visit the store in a couple weeks and take a look at it and see if he feels this is the best move for him. I am basically just trusting that he'll know what's best for us and leave it at that. If I understood him correctly, this would put us back in MN by next June. WOW! So please keep that in your prayers. We have been looking at the area and trying to ask around about what suburbs might be nice for us.

As far as his health goes, we unfortunately didn't quite get the news we would have ultimately hoped for. His spinal tap did show some abnormalities, so the neurological opthomologist has offically diagnosed him with Benign Intermittent MS. Basically, what this means is that he has a mild case of MS that only flares up every once and a while. So, what we have said is that if there is an MS to have, this is the one! We are hoping that it will stay in the intermittent stage and not turn into progressive. We will also be praying that when the reoccurences do come, they will not increase in severity. Jim had an appointment last week to discuss treatment with the dr. and she has decided that she doesn't want him to do injections. Instead, she is going to try some steroid treatments with him. Mon., Tues., and Wed. he will head over to the hospital for an hour or so and receive steroid IVs. Then he follows that up with 2 weeks of steroid pills! They have forwarned him of the possibility of gaining weight during this time! He's not too excited about that! So anyway, we'll continue to let you know how it all goes.

The kids and I are doing pretty well. We have battled some different sicknesses around the house so I am ready for a healthy break! Liam is pulling himself up and is becoming quite active. He continues to think Kallie is the funniest person ever! So fun! My job continues to go well. I just wish I had more time to get things done while I'm there! I don't like having to bring my grading home. It doesn't help that when I have to give an assignment I'm giving it to 88 kids, so that means that I have 88 papers to grade....if they all turn it in! Not too fun when you're the language teacher, especially if it's time for us to write essays! But I enjoy it nonetheless.

Well, that's all from us. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. We spent the time alone, just the four if us, which was kind of nice since we're usually rushing to travel somewhere on holidays.

Love to all!