Our family caught the horrible flu bug that has been going around…just in time to get over it and then catch the cold bug. Our days have been full of blankies, naps wherever we fall asleep, movies and comfort food (if anyone can keep the food down! yuck!) I’m horribly behind on every single thing right now (emails, laundry, editing, you name it!)

Pray that we make it out of January in one piece!

(She’s still so sweet when she’s sick though!…)

…usually she is content to do what her older siblings are doing…following in their footsteps…following them around, literally. But this past week she discovered that she can draw. Stick figures. Faces. Mommies and Daddies. Circles with circles in them and lines that in her eyes say words and describe real life. There’s pen marks on the chair, on the kitchen table, on the coffee table and on her little hands…I don’t mind. I’ll always remember this week as the one we all got horribly sick with the stomach flu…and when Lily made her discovery.

Our Christmas morning was simply perfect. We celebrated Jesus and who He is to us. We opened gifts, not too many, just the right amount. We ate our traditional cinnamon roll breakfast and then bacon for snack. There were tears of joy and lots of hugs and “thank you’s”. As each year goes by our family gets a little bit older, and Christmas becomes more and more relaxing.

I hope you had a wonderful holiday.