I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! We had a great celebrating of the birth of Jesus - the true reason for the season! Callie spent the day singing Happy Birthday Jesus and it truly warmed my heart and gave me such peace knowing it is because of Him we live today.
As sad as my days have been, I know how truly blessed I am to have 5 beautiful and healthy kids and the most amazing family a girl could dream of. I'm so blessed to have a husband that loves me and "gets me" at least most of the time :) so I chose to spend most of my day soaking in the love around me and it was fabulous. A call from Blake made the day closer to just perfect.
Hubby and I didn't exchange gifts this year for obvious reasons but I think the Wii that Santa brought was more fun that anything we would have bought each other. What a fun family gift!! We have had a blast!!
The kids got lots of other stuff including a video game chair (for the 360), Cade got a phone and yes I'm afraid I'll regret it, and lots more "stuff" for all.
My VERY FAVORITE gift I got was from my sister. She gave me, Callie, Allie, and my mom all an envelope that we had to open at the same time. There was a card with a picture of us 5 girls (included her) and it said, "Guess What? It's Sundays with the Girls!" and then the inside listed 4 shows from the Dallas Summer Musicals that she bought us ALL tickets for!!! Oh my gosh, I can not tell you how excited I am!! As you might guess from the title of my blog, I'm a dancer - err - I WAS a dancer and let me tell you that I LOVE MUSICALS and want to expose Callie to as many as possible but haven't been able to as much as I would like and NOW I CAN!!! So here's our schedule:
June: Happy Days
July: A Chorus Line
August: Mary Poppins
September: Legally Blonde
The shows are all at 2pm so we will all go to early service that day then the girls will head for lunch and a show! Oh, I cried when I opened this gift. Pure tears of joy. I just can not explain how excited I am to spend these days with my daughter, my sister, my niece, and my mom. Ab.so.lute.ly PERFECT!
Tomorrow we head to Abilene for Christmas with the in-laws and that's all I will say about that. Why? Because I'm in a good place at the moment and don't feel like a meltdown :)
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5 comments:
Oh I am so happy for you!!! Sounds like you had a wonderful Christmas and the blessing of a new job is fabulous!!! Bonus on the extra cash for the week too!!! I love when the utility companies mess up. :) Have a great weekend!!!
Awesome gift! I got tix to West Side Story at the National Theatre. Sooo excited!
Wow! I smiled when I read about your insurance and water bill. Isn't is incredible how the Lord blesses us. When we can't see how it's possible to make ends meet, he pulls out his little miracles. I'm glad that you've continued to faithfully pray and pay a tithing, because I too believe that they WORK! :)
Wow, Jen, what a rollercoaster...but God is so good in the midst of it. It sounds like the New Year will be full of new adventures! Blessings!
Your post made me smile!! God is beyond awesome isn't He?
Musicals are great! Brian and I love to go too! You are going to have such a great time!
And let me tell you...Brian and I decided years ago that we would tithe no matter what and God has blessed us for it. I love how He tells us to test Him with this and see what happens.
Malachi 3:10
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.
And congrats on the job! That is awesome!
Happy New Year!!!!
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