Christmas Thoughts

As we are coming upon the end of the year, I have had many thoughts about the past year. I think about the fact that I started this year unsure of who I really was supposed to be and with many worries and doubts and fears beyond measure.

I'm ending this year comforted by my Father, with no fear, no doubts and complete confidence in who He created me to be! It has been a fantastic year, full of many unexpected blessings!

And for now, I am excited to be preparing for the holidays. The shopping is almost done, with just a few things left. Most of those things are gift cards so they will be easy to get. I've ordered a smoked turkey, so the hard part of the meal is all taken care of for us. We'll be meeting at my daughter's house for gifts and a meal on Christmas day. It will be the first time in several years that we all, including the twin neices I raised, will be together. I can't wait! I am so very excited to celebrate with my children!

This will be a busy week for me. I'm going to work in the office the next 3 days since I don't have my little Addi until school starts back up in January. Tomorrow night I have a birthday party for a friend of mine, a girl's night out! I can't wait, I've been wanting one of those for a while now. :-) Then Wed morning we are having the carpets downstairs cleaned. Then finally the official start of our celebrations!

Christmas Eve we will meet family and friends at Campo Verde, a great mexican restaurant that has a train that goes around the whole restaurant. It's a family tradition, so we look forward to that meal every year. Then that evening we will go to the candlelight service at First Baptist Hurst. We don't go to church there anymore, but that service is also a tradition that we greatly enjoy.

Christmas Day we will get Jake from his mom at noon, then the babies at 2pm. We'll be home for Santa presents with the babies, and then off to Carrie's that evening for our family Christmas. Then on the 26th we'll go to Kiowa to share time with my hubby's family. On the 31st we have a New Year's eve service we'll attend and then maybe take the kids to Dave & Buster's or Main Event. We've done that in the past and it was a lot of fun. We are looking forward to every day we have with the babies!

We're also thinking about taking them to ICE! in Grapevine. This time of year we spend so much of it with family and cherishing our blessings... seems like we could be doing this much more often over the year instead of waiting until the end, don't you think?

So I've got my to do list written, chores are done, house is mostly clean, and I'm drinking my sleepy time tea before bed. Good night my friends... blessings to all of you....

"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe as if you have recieved it, and it will be yours." Mark 11:24