Food is food but love is love..
We are well loved as well as all our new friends journeying with us in Hospice.
Thank you Susan for organizing the women.
Thank you Steph, Katie, Pam, Sue, Liz, Carol… And everyone who I am forgetting…
Here’s the latest goodies from L2:
Thank you for dinner:
And cheesecake too…
Look who came to visit nana and I tonight:
Santa, the giver of great gifts!
Thank you to all the Santas in our lives right now.
Great gifts:
– Booking flights from Australia, Spain, Whitehorse, Vancouver.
– Heartfelt Prayer
– Thoughts about my mom and our family
– Food and water
– Kind, gentle care
– Good pain medication. (Just say yes to drugs when you have cancer.).
– Facebook messages/Blog comments
– Pictures to share with mom from afar.
– Michelle Miller (Pain Specialist) taking the helm.
AND so many other things.
Full of gratitude for God’s great mercy and for how He has used people in our lives today to help mom.
Our bags are packed.
We moving back to mom and dad’s.
Steve and the boys packed our things. Hmmmm… I wonder what will show up.
Happy fourteenth day of advent. Have you found time to breathe, rest and enjoy the waiting?
We have had an ‘enforced’ rest time.
The stomach flu has ravaged our house likes a forest fire. The only tree standing is Sexy Neck. The rest of us have been flattened.
All I can muster, in this moment, is to share a few photos of life hanging around the house the last two days. (We can’t see mom and dad until we are not contagious.)
JC took a picture of his fort.
OC wanted a picture of his Lego creation.
My couch buddy! Poor CC!
I broke into the Christmas stash to have the boys work on this Lego creation.
Airing out the bedding.
Bye bye sickness.
Thanks for visiting!
I have much to ponder after this weekend.
Prayer Retreat.
Visit with mom and dad.
Sexy Neck’s colleagues at our new house for a gingerbread party.
JC losing a tooth.
My life continues to be a little bit of a lot.
The most exciting news is that our oldest lost his first tooth.
The tooth was twisting and shaking for a few days, but on Sunday it decided to come out, “Pop”!
The reason for the title of the post was my reflection post tooth losing.
My son was elated. He didn’t need that tooth anymore. He knew that there was a bigger and better one coming. He was filled with joy. Pure joy and anticipation of the new tooth to come.
How often do I want to hold onto that old tooth or that old hurt or that old voice in my head that condemns? It seems that many women I know carry burdens, unforgiveness, negative self-talk to the detriment of ourselves.
This Christmas, I will let go of my judgement about the way I look, the thoughts I have that condemn my words and the feeling of never being enough. (Haha! The irony of this blog!)
I know that God wants me to let go of these baby teeth, enjoy the gap and wait to see what bigger and better things will come.
How about you? Is there anything you could let go of this Christmas season on this tenth day of Advent?
Glory to God for simple things, like teeth, that give me such great things to ponder in grace and freedom and love.
Let go.
Enjoy the gap.
Wait.
Journey.
The big tooth will come.
This year the boys are having difficulty waiting for the baby Jesus to arrive in the manger in our nativity scene. I’ve explained numerous times the meaning behind the nativity scene and Christmas. We’ve explained that we celebrate Jesus’s birthday on Christmas, just like we celebrate their birthdays on the day they were born. I explained that baby Jesus will appear in the manager on Christmas Day. (If I can remember where I put him!)
Today I had a HUGE belly laugh out loud moment as I walked by the nativity scene and saw a gorilla lying in the manger.
Check it out from far and near:
Should I leave the gorilla in the manger? Yup, I think we will.
Happy seventh day of advent! Ahhhh eeee ahhhh!
How about angel cookies to enjoy on this sixth day of advent?
These are super simple to make. If you are going to try making a Christmas cookie with your kids I would try these. The boys love making the dough into triangles and sticking in the pretzels.
We made these on the weekend then decorated them at Nana and Papa’s. These are yummy in our tummy kinda cookies. We decided to use the icing in the recipe book and banana chips for a head. Mom checked out the action from her chair.
Enjoy:
"Be" ENOUGH 