This past weekend Clara and her teammates wound down their soccer season. They played at the stadium, so we were much further away from the field, so I didn’t get any action shots. I did, however, manage to get her to agree to this one after their victory.

Tuesday I drove to Mint Hill to visit with Diane and the kids, and to meet Callie Ann the very first time :-). I am SO excited that they are living this close by. She is precious and beautiful and sweet – as are her older siblings 🙂

Saturday morning we headed out early for Camden, where Charlie and his teammates were running in their last cross country meet of the season. It was their first time running in really cold weather, so Andrew & Jenny had taken Char the night before to get him a hat, gloves, and tights to try to fight that chill. And it must have worked – he ran a PR by 21 seconds. So proud of this kid!

Monday morning Jeff & I were at Larne Elementary to celebrate Veterans Day with Mason. The school always provides a really good breakfast for us, and then each veteran is introduced in the assembly. Mason’s teacher, who is a friend from church, took this picture of us as that was happening. That’s Mrs Stine, the principal, shaking hands with Jeff

Last Tuesday, when we were starting out on our Virginia trip with our church Forever Young group, we had lunch at Emory and Henry College, and toured the new Arts Center.  We did not, however, have time to visit the chapel, so we made a stop on the way home just to peek inside the sanctuary.  The stained glass was beautiful.

Last week when we were in Abingdon, Meg & I spent some time before supper Weds evening wandering around the grounds of the Martha Washington Inn.  They had lovely gardens tucked into every nook and cranny.  So pretty.

That evening was the ghost tour.  So much fun, and such great history of the area.  We stopped about halfway through to rest and get some water at The Tavern, the oldest building in VA – and surely one of the oldest in the US.  It was very cool.

When we were in Virginia on the trip with our Forever Young group from church, my friend Pam’s aunt, who lives there, made arrangements for one of the historical interpreters that she is good friends with to come to the Muster Grounds and present a program for us.  It was so, so good.  She talked about just life around the time of the Revolutionary War, and one thing she talked about was their clothes.  She said that they literally wore clothes until they wore completely out, and that there was a very good change that you were wearing clothes that belonged to your ancestors.  Very interesting.

Last Sunday the girls and I got home from Beaufort just in time for Jeff & me to get to Clara’s soccer game not TOO late.   They played hard & even though they lost, it was much closer than the last time they played this team earlier in the season.  It was a beautiful afternoon to be out, so she had quite the cheering section there at this home game 🙂