This was a wonderful Christmas for me and our family. If we stay on our current schedule, it was our last Christmas in the states for quite a while, but it couldn't have been better.Here's some things I loved about it:
- that God loved us so much He became one of us, lived a perfect life and then chose to pay the price for our wrong-doing in giving His life
- Christmas Eve with church family whom we love
- Christmas Day with my parents who are so beloved and precious to all of us
- Christmas Eve day of children opening gifts from our loved ones in Alabama
- Christmas cookies that we made and decorated
- how we did gifts . . . our family of six drew each others names and every one put a lot of thought into the gift(s) they purchased for their select recipient
- our time together
- the blessing of many friends who are so dear to us
- hot chocolate with marshmallows
- "What God Wants For Christmas"
- hay ride and the chopping down of our Christmas tree
- the loveliness of the tree all decorated and lit
- the wonderful Christmas card given to Robert and I by my parents
- Christmas cards we received from friends (especially the ones with pictures)
- our family privately shopping for Christmas angels
- our church family shopping for Christmas angels
- our Advent wreath and the times we celebrated the first advent of Christ together
- the Christmas pageant at our church
- reading our Christmas books
- my dad's steaks
- learning about the "turducken" (a partially deboned turkey stuffed with deboned duck, stuffed with deboned chicken stuffed with stuffing) that my in-laws cooked for their Christmas dinner in Alabama . . . intriguing, isn't it?
- the excitement of children at Christmastime
- our children's expressions of love for God in their prayers, their songs and their art
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