Crochet!

I made a new afghan.  I have never made a full length one, and I haven’t crocheted at all in about 20 years.  I started this just before the election, and it took about six weeks.  I listened to pod casts in the evenings as I worked a few rows at a time.  I hope to make some more.   Johanna and Tabitha want to learn, as well.

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Asa is back!

Our shepherd, Asa, is back for the Christmas season as he helps us find Jesus.  He has shown up in no small number of places.  Each day he has scripture and some application.  He is super clever.

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Today he brought us a kit to make houses.

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Mommy’s birthday 2020

We were too busy to celebrate my birthday ON my birthday –hard to imagine given the current situation.  We postponed my birthday until everyone could be home.

There was chocolate.

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And cards. 

Stewart drew this one.  You can see how he assigned each duck a personality based on the birth order.  When the kids were little, I would have them, “Walk like ducklings” while we shopped, to keep our footprint as small as possible for other shoppers.  Stewart duck is wearing a hat.  Nigel duck is the tallest.  Marie duck is singing, or waving… Tabitha duck has curly hair and Johanna duck has on glasses.  Mommy is carrying Katriel duck. 

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Katriel asked if she could take photos as I unwrapped my gifts.

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We enjoyed some seriously decadent Hummingbird Cake.

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Smile, you’re a lawbreaker?

There may or may not have been a party here one night…

Maybe it was just these two gorgeous young ladies.

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Maybe there was a score of ladies from a dozen families that don’t take kindly to being sanctioned.

Meeting Victorious

It took three months to finally get there, but we got to meet Victorious tonight. 

We’ve prayed for her for years…  It was good to finally hug and hold her.

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Space Cadet?

It’s hard to believe a year ago we were at Disney World, wholly unaware that the world was about to come undone.

Kelly bought Katriel her friend, “Alieny” and popcorn always tastes better when he presents it.

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