Happy Birthday to Ja(s)per!! Or is it Jasper already? We hope you are having a happy day celebrating your birthday. We will miss seeing you this Christmas, but I know you will have a great time with your grandma and "auntie".

My child phsycologist friend helped me see that this thing with Emily started while Dd was here. Like me, Emily needs to be having fun and laugh, and of course we didn't have much of that while Dd was here. I felt emotionally torn apart, but as an adult I can figure how to ut myself back together again. Emily probably felt the same way but doesn't know yet how to put herself together again. We are now in the process of helping her do this. It doesn't help that her teacher is very like Dd - negative and bitter. Please keep praying for her. We are seeing her happy more than not these days. Please keep praying for us - I'm completely exhausted of this being on gaurd every minute I'm with her. But if it helps, I'm willing to do it.

We got our first Christmas card today - December 01. Tomorrow we get our tree and then on first advent we decorate it.

Teresa