The Last Few Weeks

I really wanted to get some of these posts in before the new year.  Why?  I don't know, really.  Maybe because I just have not been able to get to it!  It has actually taken me three days to do this one post.  Who knew it could be such a challenge?  Well, Happy 2010 and Go Hokies!

We had a great time in the snow when the blizzard hit.  14 inches of snow!  What a great way to slow down.  The kids spent hours playing in it.  They built snow forts for a snowball fight.  Somehow Kayla got Jack good and was heard saying, "We've got him on the run now, Daddy!"

 

Christmas was different for us this year.  The first year we have not traveled.  We wondered what it would be like but being home Christmas morning as the kids opened their gifts was fun.  All day they played.  Brian and I cooked dinner.  He cooked our first turkey- yum! And it was Lucy's first Christmas!

In the afternoon, amid the wrapping paper and packaging all over the floor, Jack said, "It sure is messy in here.  But then I guess the stable was messy.  So I guess it's ok for Christmas to be messy."   I loved the theology in that, even though I'm sure he didn't quite catch it himself.  We are needy, messy people with messy, sinful lives.  But because what began in the messy stable, we have great hope at Christmas and always.

We have of course enjoyed Lucy.  Kayla calls her Lu.  She loves how warm and soft her baby sister is.  And you know, Jack loves to hold her,too and talk about how little she is.  Samuel has really wanted to hold her but he's still got a cold.  One day he asked if her could hold "Baby Wuvy" and I told him once he didn't have a cold he could.  He disappeared and returned with more clothes and said, "I not cold now, Mommy."

The boys and I were watching a Little People video.  There was a little boy climbing a rainbow to lasso a cloud.  Jack felt that these movies are too unrealistic.  That they don't teach Samuel anything "real."  "Rainbows aren't really that bright, Mom.  And do you really want Sam growing up thinking he can climb rainbows?"  Now that made me laugh!

And finally, Baby Lucy meets Great-Grandma Lucy for the first time.