Newman News

Well I have slacked off with posting pictures and news. It's been crazy with working, grandchildren and life in general. And now Thanksgiving is NEXT week! I am usually so good about getting my Christmas shopping done way in advance but not this year! So what is new?
Audy found out that Sunday after Thanksgiving he is going on the 10pm-6am shift. At first we were like "how in the world are we going to do this?" and then we came to a screeching hault and thanked the Lord that he has a job! It was a year ago the very same time he was told he was laid off!! So we will just change our schedule a little bit and he still gets plenty of time with the family! Right now he is getting over a cold!
I have been working but things have been really slow in sales. You can see the strain of worry on people as they are worried if they are in the next lay off. So they just "browse" and decline purchasing any books. I ache for them as I know how it feels! I am decorting for Christmas starting tomorrow! My dearest friend, Sandra called us a while back and since they are coming down from D.C. for Thanksgiving and her mama lives in Alabama asked if her mama, Mimi could come and stay with us for a few days until they got here. We are just as excited as Mimi is that we have a few "Girl Days" together.
Skip, Jess and Molly are doing great! Other than Molly having a fever she is growing like a weed. She had her 9 mo. checkup recently and doctor said, she was perfect!! Jessica will continue to work from home and will be picking up a few more hours after the holidays. And Skippy is finally making "goal" which means a nice size bonus for the holidays!
Katie and her family are busy as ever! When I go over the kids are full of news what they have learned in homeschool for the day. This past week they were studying the state of Penn. and mainly about the amish people. Bryson moved to another level on his piano and did a little performace for us on Sunday and Audy (having a musical ear) said, he hit the right note!!!