BEST CHRISTMAS EVER

I was a little afraid that as I got older Christmas would not become cool again until I could experience it as a mom....but let me just tell you that this was absolutely the BEST CHRISTMAS EVER!!! This was the least prepared I was for Christmas...with the move and all I was still buying stuff for the new house instead of buying gifts for others....sooo at the last minute I was shopping, but just in time to get it all done. I also got to get away with my two best friends Amanda and Melanie. This was such a fun retreat of good food, laughter and many many movies. :) Then we had a spectacular service at church on Christmas Eve...many of you know we don't have a church right now, but for Christmas Eve we were able to rent out a local high school and have one big service (our regular meeting place is a Catholic School where we have to have two services to fit everyone.) The stage was decorated beautifully and Daniel did an amazing job with the musical selections. He is so gifted at that!!!! Then we had dinner with my parents and presents galore!!! Christmas morning was just me and Daniel opening our lovely appliances and being more excited than ever to get appliances as Christmas gifts. (We declared our selves official grown-ups.) Then Christmas Dinner with the Doss's 2 and 1/2 hours away! I love Daniel's family and we had a great time there for a couple of days. So therefore this Christmas was declared the Best Christmas Ever. I continually thank God for the blessing He is bestowing on us and am so glad He is letting me focus on those instead of what we do not have.

**The gift I'm most excited about is two tickets to the new Symphony Hall in Nashville. (I'm not even going to begin to try to spell. Ha!)

UPDATE

Well our house sold with an offer being put on it after 5 days on the market. We were able to move in the weekend after Thanksgiving and everything happened sooo quickly I'm just now catching my breath. I asked God to slow down this process if this was not what He wanted for our lives. Then I read a verse in 2nd Chronicles after Hezekiah purified the Temple in a short amount of time and verse 36 says, "Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced at what God had brought about for his people, because it was done so quickly." I sat back and rejoiced that in our selling the house/moving situation things also happened quickly. Reading that verse was definitely God's gift to me that day because He wanted me to also rejoice in His work in our lives.

I need to say a big big THANK YOU!!! to everyone who came out and helped us move. We totally couldn't have done it on our own.

We are so excited and proud of our beautiful new home. If you are in the area come by and see us....but please call first so I can straighten up....those messy people that lived in our old house moved in with us here too. :) We're trying to kick them out and keep this house nice and clean, but that takes breaking old habits and making new ones. :) Maybe that should be my New Year's Resolution.