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This years Christmas card. For your enjoyment.
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We’re driving to church yesterday and my husband says, “I feel like I’m frayed at the edges, and any second I could unravel.” I’m wiping away tears as I nod. Yes, this is life. You walk and follow and sometimes God leads down some pretty dark and wandering roads. But then we’re at church, so…
The wind was chilly but the sun shown warm. I snuggled the boys into jackets and shoes. “We’re going to the woods,” I told them. “We’re going crazy in the woods?” D asks with a grin. He’s teasing me as I tease him everyday after school. “When’s mom picking me up?” he asks as he drops…
The babies are sleeping. Little one-year-old Eli is fighting a fever so he snuggled in so happily, content to have a binky and a kiss. My “twins” (Aiden and Hadassah, both two-years-old) fell asleep with just a few minutes of back rubs and whispered lullabies. The cake is in the oven. Today’s chocolate cake claims…
::The Haitian Chronicles:: Walking out of the airport in Port au Prince, Haiti was a new experience. Not because of the place, I had been there before, but because how we were met. Through the sea of faces, I heard my husband’s name. We waved and laughed and soon we were wrapped in bear hugs…
Thanksgiving is coming. Pumpkin. Squash. Carrots. All those root vegetables that make their appearance when the weather turns cold. When the chill starts seeping into the house… I bake. When the first frost comes, I make bread. When the first snow comes, I make snow cake. Then cinnamon rolls. And pumpkin muffins. And sweet potato…
Every year I wonder if it will be the last. There is always that stirring hope, that longing. Perhaps this will be my last year of childlessness. Perhaps by next Christmas I will have a baby. Perhaps… And yet, Thanksgiving is here and this “thorn”, as the Apostle Paul would say, is still in my side….
This made me grin. Particularly the part about the cows in the barn. 😀 Happy New Year and thanks for being a part of YLCF!! 🙂