I hope you had a very blessed Christmas and have a very Happy New Year! Goodbye, 2015!!!
I'll see you in 2016!
In which I hope to bring some sense of edification through entertainment
This was one of the most unique Christmas WEEKS I've had. The only other time I've had this unique of a Christmas week was when I was overseas and experienced a Hungarian Baptist, 3-day Christmas celebration. I don't have time to go into all the details right now, but suffice it to say we were able to bless a lot of people through a lot of different scenarios! But through it all we were able to keep smiling and loving and blessing. I'm actually really not sure where the whole month of December went... maybe if I start posting pictures on Facebook and here I'll remember where it all went!
I hope you had a very blessed Christmas and have a very Happy New Year! Goodbye, 2015!!! I'll see you in 2016!
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Monday the in-laws came for dinner, and we also had a couple over who met at our wedding as he was a groomsman and she was a bridesmaid.... and now they're talking marriage too! Dad-in-law had made a beautiful 1st Anniversary gift for us - one of the roses from our wedding ceremony centerpieces dried and arranged in some fabric I had used as decoration and all put tastefully in a shadow-box! And a signed copy of the picture of Kyle and I and Mr. President Jimmy Carter and Rosalyn Carter with a personal message from the former president! So that was pretty cool. Tuesday we babysat for the youth minister's wife. Youth Minister has been in Iowa for two weeks for military training, and the poor mama was going stir crazy in the house with a 4 year old and a 3 month old. So we entertained the kiddo's while she went and grocery shopped and enjoyed the peace and quiet. After that we came home and tried to get the house clean (home for 2 days and already the kitchen is trashed!) and put away stuff from our trip. We went to some neat spice stores and international grocery stores while we were in Florida, and I had a LOT to put away! The good news is that I have at least a year's supply of Cardamom, Sumac, Paprika, Basmati Rice, and hot sauce. And at least two weeks worth of Ahmad Cardamom tea!! (can ya tell I like Cardamom? So there's the update. We also have had dinner at two other friend's houses in the meantime, have seen "Austenland" (which, for those of us who grew up on Jane Austen is H.I.L.A.R.I.O.U.S!!!! - if you don't mind a little crassness here and there; but it is a good satire commentary on our times vs. the Regency era and how they are similar/different) done some stuff around the church, and are getting ready for another quick trip up to Chicago to see my dear little Great-Grandma who is 98. Then Kyle starts his new job and we buckle down and start acting like boring responsible adults again with their nose to the grindstone. Ha yeah right. The thing I love about the life God's given me and the husband God has blessed me with and the calling He's put in front of us is that: Even in the mundane, life is an adventure! There is beauty in the ordinary and joy in the routine, and the adventures make us treasure the regular and visa verse!
Well, there was a collective gasp from all adults when the baby opened my gift to him, along with questions of "Is that handmade?" "Who did you get to make that?" "YOU made that?! WOW!" The boy himself gratefully bit the stegosaurus on the nose, threw him on the ground and... well, that was it as far as his interest in THAT toy went. But his mama assured me that he WILL be interested in it later (poor child. He'll always wonder why mom and dad kept shoving that dorky dinosaur in his face telling him with a nostalgic sigh about some person who made it for him waaay back before he was old enough to remember anything.) It was just all the OTHER toys that flashed and made noise were currently distracting him - and driving mama nuts! BUT my husband and I have now attended two different birthday parties for one-year-olds, and have both decided that such things are not necessarily for the child's benefit, but for the parents, friends, families etc. to celebrate the fact that the small bundle of joy has survived their first year. (And in this particular little guy's case, it was DEFINITELY a celebration. Poor kid has had way too many health issues, starting from day 3 of his precious little life!) Which is fine, but that being said, if the parents ooh and aaw over my gift more than the munchkin does, its ok. I'm just further fulfilling the purpose of the party! |
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