Our Life in Song...Christmas Letter 2012

Our Life in Song: 2012

I’ll Be Home for Christmas – It’s been a year-long process, but Rich finally made it to South Africa and is helping out as a camp counselor for 3 weeks.  We are eagerly awaiting his arrival back home!

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – You can bet that we will be doing a LOT of kissing when he gets back home!

All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth - Cannon (6) has managed to pull out 4 of his own teeth in the last few months…most of the time while sitting in his first grade classroom.

Rocking Around the Christmas Tree - Maeve (4) at any given time can be found dancing around to a tune that she is humming.  She lives constantly in a pretend world filled with butterflies and rainbows, and she is loving Preschool!

Pretty Paper – I find Brynn (8) more and more  often sitting quietly drawing.  She loves to sketch, color, paint, and create.  And I love watching her get lost in her work. 3^rd grade is going well for her.

Little Drummer Boy – Nolan (2) leaves a trail of destruction following him wherever he goes.  I just had to pull the baseball bat out of his hand before our Christmas Tree took another beating.

The Friendly Beasts – Our pets have multiplied.  In addition to the 10 year old dog, we now house a fish named Dash, and a rat named Buttercup. 

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things – Relaxing trips with family,  having dinners with friends, hearing the laughter of my kids as they play, blogging, a warm cup of coffee in the early morning while browsing Pinterest, opening our home up for two sweet boys from Burundi, and learning to lean more and more on the grace and fulfillment that only comes from my Jesus.

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year – to steal the lyrics from one of my favorite songs “Tears are falling, hearts are breaking, how we need to hear from God. You've been promised, we've been waiting, welcome Holy Child. Hope that you don't mind our manger, how I wish we would have known. Long-awaited Holy Stranger, please make yourself at home. Bring your peace into our violence, bid our hungry souls be filled. Word now breaking Heaven's silence, welcome to our world. Fragile finger sent to heal us, tender brow prepared for thorn, tiny heart whose blood will save us, unto us is born.
So wrap our injured flesh around you, breathe our air and walk our sod, rob our sin and make us holy
perfect Son of God. Welcome to our world.” (Chris Rice – Welcome to Our World)

                                                                                                               Love from Us to You!