Blessings

• Another sunny Sunday afternoon.
  
• Cori who diligently shovels our long driveway and sidewalks. I've done it a couple of times, and its a tall order. Even when it doesn't snow, the wind blows at night and we always have an inch or two across the drive in the morning. Everyone up here has a snow blower. Sadly, our budget currently allows for a shovel, and Cori has been a real champ about it.
  
• The Internet. I did almost all our Christmas shopping online this year, and it was sooooo nice. 20 minutes here, 20 minutes there, whenever I had a chance. It freed up a lot of time for us to focus on some other Christmas service things that we wanted to do. Not to mention being relieved of the adventure that is shopping with small kids.
  
• Our branch family, again. I had so much help again today. As I was struggling out of the chapel with both kids after the sacrament today to feed Grant, a friend hurried to my side to take Grace back with her. I taught in Relief Society today, and Grant was getting really fussy. Another friend took him (to the other side of the building) to rock him. Then, a brother from the branch came by after church to help Cori with the 4Runner. We got new tires on it yesterday, and when Cori went to drive it this morning, one of the tires was flat. We had just gotten it into the garage to see about the spare and decide what we were going to do about tomorrow when Brother G* showed up with an air compressor and some tools. They were able to repair what we think was the problem, and we were spared a lot of time and trouble.