New Year's Eve

The kids just went to bed. John is preparing the crepes for our NYE get together with his parents and sister.  I have curlers in my hair to look presentable for when they arrive.  But I won't be wearing shoes.  This Christmas was wonderful and spending it with the twins and our families made it that way.  It must have been tough for their mom, since she was without them.  Please keep her in your prayers.  Please keep another mother in your prayers who is carrying our (possible) niece.  She has chosen wonderful people to parent this little girl: John's sister and brother-in-law.  We eagerly await her arrival in mid-January.  Ellen and Kurt will drive from WI down to Louisiana for the birth. She will be our 9th godchild, an incredible honor for us.  This is a baby so precious and a pearl of great price to both her birth mother and her parents.

This beautiful and moving Christmas song about the Baby Jesus makes me think of all children, especially this little baby girl, who come to be in less than perfect circumstances, but who bring light and joy to our lives.  I challenge you not to tear up when you listen to the words.
 
God bless you all in 2011.  

Our Sugar Plums at Mere Mere and Pere Pere's house, Christmas night.

The Yule Blog

I have all but given up blogging this month.  Amid the activities, appointments, work, stomach virus with the twins, etc, the blog has been neglected. The twins have their first Christmas tree which Daddy cut down at a local tree farm.

Our Christmas celebrating will consist of Christmas Eve at my parents' house, taking the kids down Candy Cane Lane here in town to see the awesome lights; Christmas morning Mass, Christmas dinner with John's family; our annual Boxing Day Brunch at our house; a 2 day trip to Leavenworth with John's family and the twins. 

Photos and posts will be up at a later date, because, well, that's how I am these days.
If there are any readers still out there, Merry Christmas to you and yours! 

God bless!