Success! Beth's first soup show of the season was Saturday at the huge middle school in Columbia City. We went in with a dozen of each flavor and things sold really well. Beth was so stressed about how it would go and worried that she wouldn't sell anything. But by the end of the day she had sold 89 jars, good for over $900, and so I think that'll basically pay for all the supplies so far this year. Hopefully, she won't have to make too much more for the Wawasee show in a couple weeks, and what she makes there can be mostly profit. We need it. Once again, we sold a lot of the soups that she brought, and not a whole lot of the others. But it went well enough that she was very happy with it. It seemed busy, or at least steady, for the entire show. 

Tonight was the church's annual (I guess, since we did it last year and now this year again) Christmas season kickoff. Early, I think, but why not. But instead of a scavenger hunt of things around town, we were to go to locations starting with the letters in the word "family" and do an activity there starting with that same letter, then take a photo of it and post it. Such as Yoga at the YMCA, or Lying down at Lincoln Elementary. Missy was babysitting so she missed out on it, but the rest of us went ahead and did it. Not as much fun as the one last year but probably easier for the people with littles. We got everything checked off and then headed back to the church for Feasting at FCC. Cookies and hot chocolate, you know.

Thursday Beth and I took Missy to visit the campus at Ball State. It went really well; Missy liked the campus a lot and so did Beth. We had an orientation meeting of sorts at first, then did a campus tour, then had enough time to drive around the town a bit before having another tour with the art department. Everything looked really great, and the art department seems fantastic. They have an animation major which is what Missy is interested in, and one of their professors is a former Disney animator. I cam away thinking that Ball State would be a perfect fit for Missy. So did Beth. Beth hung out in the dining area for a while when her knee hurt too much to keep up with the tour, and she said the student body as a whole seems very nice. And Missy seems to have come around from her initial position (around a month and a half ago, when I first suggested Ball State to her) of "I'm not going to Bull $#!+ University, Dad." She even asked a question during the tour. I think we should get her application in as soon as possible. Now, remember not to pressure her....

I think my foot is not stress fractured after all. After I told nearly everyone that it was. I visited the chiropractor Wednesday and he adjusted the talus in my ankle; I had told him about it and described how it felt and he told me it was all the classic symptoms of a talus malalignment. So he pulled on it and it popped, and it hasn't been hurting much at all since then. I still haven't run on it since I hurt it, though, because I definitely need to buy new shoes before I run again.