Merry Christmas, dear friends 💜
If you’re from around here, you know we got a good dump of snow last night. Our town guys are already diligently out, clearing the roads. On Christmas Day. If thats not a very real gift to every local citizen, I don’t know what is. Thank you, town guys!!
As it continued to snow this morning, we got up late, and got all the Christmas lights on. The kids asked yesterday, somewhat unceremoniously, if we could just skip breakfast and go right to presents. I wanted them to survive the morning, so I said they could pick breakfast. Everyone grabbed a peach cup out of the pantry and called it a day! They were eager to get to the fun stuff!
I’ll show you presents and such in a different post, but they were a great success 💜 Everyone was totally happy, and eager to dig into their stuff! You might remember that we go light on the gifts, with four main presents, one of which is something to actually play with. Thankfully, they were ALL a hit and everyone was very excited to get into it! First, though, we opened up our new Bible!
Dekker found the Christmas story, and Laela volunteered to read it to everyone.
I’ve never seen this Bible before, and I really like it!!
Once we read our story and talked about it with the kids, it was time to get into the gifts!!
As the kids are cracking into their stuff, and we’re helping them assemble, read up on, and set up their gifts, everyone is happy and busy and content 💜 They’re even sharing and playing together, as opposed to some days when everyone really feels protective over their things. Its just going really well. Its peaceful here, and I am so grateful.
No one wants lunch. They just want to play. So we’ll throw some snacks at them soon enough, but this is too good to break off.
Merry Christmas, friends. I hope you find yourselves at peace, wherever you are, whoever you’re with, whatever your day may hold 💜