Merry Christmas Everybody!

December 8th 2009

Wishing You a Very Merry Christmas! The season of being joyful at Christmas time.

Greetings!

We had a full year of activities. We had 6 major conferences in 2009. Dee drove to all of them except the NAEYC conference in November which was in Washington DC.

We met a lot of interesting people all over the U.S. from late April in Utah- to Tennessee -to Florida and back to Wyoming and then Iowa which was in October. We met many educators, parents and self-advocates. It was great meeting and learning from each other.

In June we gathered together with Ben’s family and friends in North Dakota to celebrate Ben’s dad’s 90th birthday. It was good to see everybody there from all over the U.S.

In 2009 we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Marj and Wayne Nelson. Wayne was Ben’s supervisor on his first job as a public awareness person in Grand Forks, ND back in the early 1970’s.

2010 looks like it will be another full year of meeting people as we are looking at some major tours beginning in February. We will be touring from Texas through Kansas.

The book continues to be a good item for people to read as we receive emails from people who enjoyed the book. We haven’t made the million mark yet for sales LOL but we are looking at the focused groups of people that are gaining insight about disabilities rather than the quantity of sales. We are getting the message out about awareness and advocacy to help people with disabilities, their families, and educators to continue to bring inclusion and independence to persons with disability.

As we look forward to many awareness workshops in 2010 we are hoping that you will financially sponsor us with your gifts. We are offering a Christmas special of “IQ of 63, So What!” at the cost of $10. each plus $3. S/H. ( half price) You can send a check to Break Through Inc at PO Box 284, Amery, WI 54001 or order online at http://bendanderson.com/IQof63.htm It makes a great gift.

We will be celebrating Christmas here in Amery with Dee’s brother and friends. Dee has been busy working on a website business where she has some clients. She also enjoys singing at the Lake Wapogassett Christmas Dinner Theater.

Wishing all of you the best Christmas and New Year! God Bless!

Ben and Dee Anderson