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Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a great Thanksgiving with our friends the Slater family. We had ham and turkey, stuffing, corn, pototoes, green beans, and lots and lots of yummy desserts. The moms and children made cookies and the kids decorated them. It was a great day and we are so thankful for of our many blessings! Hope you all had a wonderful day!

If we live, we are living for the Lord, and if we die, we are dying for the Lord. Romans 14:8

Scott's Dad has terminal cancer.

This is by far the hardest post I've ever had to write. The past two weeks have been a blur since we heard that news. Scott is going to apply for a humanaitarian assignment to Grand Forks, ND which is only 3 hrs away from his home town and if it goes through we could be out of here in as little as 2-3 weeks. The past weeks have brought back vivid memories of my childhood, where as a 9 year old I watched my stepdad literally melt before my eyes from terminal lung cancer. This is not going to be easy.

So kleinsingermany will become...kleinsindakota? I am a southern girl (75 and up is my comfort zone)not too familiar with the frozen tundra of the northern hemisphere. From what I'm hearing it can get to temps of -80 degrees!!! I've decided that if at all possible I will set up a "tropic zone" in the basement with sun lamp and even the smell of pina colada in the air - I may even put in some sand for good measure :) It will be my "sun room" - so if anyone hears of any good deals on home tanning beds please pass them my way ;)

Photos to share

I haven't shared any photos lately so here are a few to go along with the stories...
ok it seems I have somehow deleted the really good photos I wanted to share. The above is a photo on the way to Trier...sitting at a light

Please email me at kimklein7671@yahoo.com if you'd like to chat - Mary I do see your comments but I cannot reply to you through blogger.

Saying Farewell

Today is a sad day. I just found out my cousin Pam passed away yesterday afternoon. She has been suffering for quite a while from a kidney disease but it is still so sad to have her gone. This makes the 3rd cousin (close to my age)that I've lost since we arrived here in Germany. So the feeling of getting farther away from family grows every day. Someday we will not have the ones that actually talk to us (Moms, Aunts etc) then what family will we have??? It is sad. Sad that we used to be so close and now are so far away from each other and don't do whatever it is that needs to be done to close that gap more often. I've tried to reach out through my websites and blogs but don't ever hear from anyone in return. I just don't know what else to do.

Frost is on the pumkins ;)

We woke up yesterday to a blanket of white frost. I think winter has officially arrived (Jared was soooo excited to see white) and giggled like crazy at me while I scraped the ice from the windows of my car! He thought that was the coolest thing!

I'm not sure if I am really ready for this but I do not want to be in the funk that I've been in for the past two years....so I am going to TRY to find the positives in all this...besides it being our last winter here ;)

I vow to get out in spite of the cold and do some traveling. I've always wanted to go to Italy and by golly I am going to do it!!! Don't know how or when yet but at least getting there is now my goal.

Days are short and everyone in this family is taking turns being sick so at some point there is someone to nurse at all times...including myself, I've had a terrible headache for 3 days and now my ears are starting to drain and I am getting a toothache and sore throat. Great! I really can't afford to be sick when my family needs me. I will drink lots of tea and hopefully shake it off quickly.

We finally got packages in the mail - party supplies (for the party we had two weeks ago) and Jaiden's halloween costume (a very adorable caterpillar) I did some Christmas shopping online only to find out as I was checking out that they won't deliver to an APO address UGH! I'm thinking we will have an old fashioned Christmas this year. There is just no time to go shopping after work so we will have to make the best of what we have and enjoy the time we have together.