(catching up again, from this past Friday morning…) We’re settled in our warm house, safe from the "extreme cold" outside – currently 17 degrees, with a windchill of 6 degrees! Whew! I know for most of you that isn’t bad, but it’s chilly, specially for Brian riding to work. <\/p>\n
Yesterday was a nice relaxing day while Analise was at Mother’s Day Out. (By the way, she’s stayed dry the whole time she was at school both Tuesday and Thursday. Woohoo!) Josiah came with me to help pack Christmas stockings for children at the Alabama Baptist Children’s Home with the women of my missions group. It is so fun to pack each stocking full of toys, candy and fun things for these kids. I love that aspect of the Christmas season (we try to do it all year round, but it’s especially prevalent with others at Christmas). There are so many opportunities to reach out and give. It feels so good! We put together our traditional Operation Christmas Child boxes for Analise and Josiah to send to kids their age through Samaritan’s Purse. Analise gets to bring a gift for needs posted on an Angel Tree at her school. Her Wednesday night Mission Friend’s group helped pack the stockings this past Wednesday, and next week they’re having a birthday party for Jesus. They get to bring baby gifts for a crisis pregnancy center. I really hope we can raise our children with an attitude of excitement towards opportunities to give, both of their things, money, time and themselves. <\/p>\n
While Analise was at school, Josiah took a good long nap and I made homemade blackberry muffins. MMMmmm. This is the BEST muffin recipe (hopefully, I’ll post it soon, with all the other recipes I’ve promised myself)! The blackberries were frozen from the Black and Blue festival we went to when Josiah was just a week old. He’ll be 6 months tomorrow. Crazy how time flies! <\/p>\n
Funny note… We keep noticing that our clock is off in the mornings. The other morning, it said 5:24 from about 4am on. I assume Brian is hitting buttons when he’s snoozing\/resetting the alarm to sleep a little extra. This morning, though, the clock is nearly half an hour fast. Hmm. I think in his asleep-state, he’s resetting the time instead of the alarm! Poor guy. He’s working so hard getting caught up on grading, making up tests, designing a website and attending student stuff. He was gone Monday, Wednesday and last night for work stuff. We’ll all breath a sigh of relieve when Dec. 16th rolls around the sememster is wrapped up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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