– Family movie watching the \”Christmas Carol\” with a giant trash bag full of popcorn (thank you, Thursday Boys!)
– Basden knowing so many lines to the movie by heart
– Daboo\’s 40th birthday gift to me ~ winterizing our front flower bed
– Esther\’s 40th birthday gift to me
– Ten women gathered in her new home around her just-moved-in-dining table for a small luncheon…. a special memory of friendships and conversation for a lifetime
– Eating lunch with the girls at school ~ reminded again of the sweet community
– The Tulsa James\’ new addition
– The privilege of praying with other women for our teachers and staff
– December bathing beauties
– A quiet home!
– Fires in the fireplace nearly every night (made possible installing gas logs – sorry Aunt Julie!)
– Bran\’s basketball game last night – with 2 seconds left, our free throw ties game. OT. Our team wins by one basket ~ who hoo!
– Remebering back when they only dreamed of being basketball stars…
– Back bends, back walkovers, handstands, cartwheels… the girls way of moving throughout the house
– Dear friends smiling at us from their Christmas cards ~ love this time of year
– These two partners in crime
– Basden’s prayer written on a church notecard
– Spending a cold, wintery Sunday at the new H5 ranch (!!)
– $$ in the bank for my Costco purchases
– Mrs. Patterson’s surprise 39 1/2 birthday, seeing how loved she is by the other teachers and her students (I would never have imagined back in 1991 at a Garth Brooks concert that one day my 11-year-old would get to have her for a teacher)
– Hud running for student council, losing by one vote, and the fact that he voted for the OTHER guy!
– Their fav
– Twinks! Came down dressed for school like this together
– That sweet Ashlyn loves her note from Esther so much she sleeps with it
– Championship rings from the fall double-header season (love these boys)
– Snapshots of Advent in our home that make me happy
– Esther’s little heart, and this note she ran to the kitchen and wrote to herself during a “scary” part of a family movie.
(insert pic of note!)
– Laughing HARD at a birthday party with the Bosticks. Just feels good to laugh that hard, and seeing Corbin laugh makes me laugh even more.
– Juanelle’s faith ~ observing her grief all those years ago continues to teach me to trust
– Don\’t mind so many Christmas work dinner when I get to go with him
Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always. Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles… 1 Chronicles 16:11-12