It has been a while since I have last posted. As always life has kept us very busy. When you last heard from me I was feeling very anxious about spending the holidays without my mother. I will not deny that it was a little rough. But because of God's grace I will have to say we had a wonderful Christmas!!
As a tradition the entire family came to our house. We were able to spend the morning with just us and kids opening presents. I stayed up the night before wrapping presents and hit the sack at 3:30 and woke up at 6:30 to start baking/cooking. Of course Delaine was up right by my side waiting to open presents. Finally at 8:30 we opened gifts. We had a great day. Family arrived around 2 and we exchanged gifts, had a devotion remembering Christs birthday (My dad did a wonderful job), and had dinner. Another tradition is serving birthday cake for Jesus. This year my dad helped me make it. We all gathered our bells from mom and rang them in honor of her and to keep her close to our hearts.
It was a beautiful day full of fun, family, laughter, and remembrance of Christ birth & my mothers love.
