Not too much to share~my Preston turned five last week, and I think he had a really great birthday. Allen stayed up again to help decorate with our usual streamers and posters and balloons. Preston and I made his cake together as is our tradition, and we also made a marble roller out of toilet paper centers. He had wanted one for Christmas, but I have been lamenting how my craftiness kinda went by the wayside with my boys. Now I have ideas for cardboard castles and pirate ships and battlefields~you name it! So I’m not wanting to buy the real thing. I wanna enjoy the fruit of our own hands.
I’ve actually been lamenting a lot lately. Maybe the coming of a New Year naturally lends to reflection, but OH! Have I shed tears over my failings and lost sleep even! My love of the internet has grown too large, we’re behind in school, I see ways I’ve not trained my children well in normal, day-to-day life skills, and I’m LARGE. I hate that I’m in the same exact place I’m in every year, still wanting to change the very same things! ACK! WHAT will it take?
In good news, my Dizzle is a Grandma to a BEAUTIFUL baby girl!!!! And my friend Shannon had a beautiful baby girl safely and naturally after a very dangerous pregnancy!!!! WOOHOOO! I am very close to being ready for Christmas~I’m going to get a volleyball set for my darling this evening, and I’ve finished his hat and am a few fingers away from finishing his fingerless gloves (HA! Oxymoron!) with an open-topped thumb and no fold-over cover. I could always keep up with crocheting washcloths, as you never know who you may have missed… OH! And somehow Hazel doesn’t have a stocking~YIKES! I’m hoping to knock this one out with one side pink, one side brown, and the top white. The buying was done so early that I should’ve wrapped it all by now (it’s really not that much), so I hope to get to it this weekend. I just wanna lay it out Christmas Eve without having to do so much work all at once!
MERRY CHRISTMAS, Y’ALL! I‘m pretty confident it‘s gonna be a GOOD one! (((((HUGS))))) sandi
Sandi,
God has a way of making us reflect. A wise preacher once said, God loves you just the way you are but He also loves you to much not to make you change. Sometimes that reflecting is the Lord pressing our spirit to change. Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
God Bless,
Daniel
Hi Sandi, dropped by to wish you and your family a very merry Christmas and a blessed New Year.
Take care.
I am asking everyone that has ever talked to Stephanie on mormonsrock site (http://mormonsrock.wordpress.com) to go there now and leave a special word for her on her latest post – you will know which one.
She needs our kind words and prayers right about now – she has given us so much and she is feeling down and it is up to us to show her that we do care about her.
Please spread the word – I would like her to see how many good things people will say about her instead of all of the negative things she has had to put up with – and don’t forget that her husband is in Iraq and she and him need our prayers.
Sandi,
Blessed Christmas to you and your family, and hope you catch some rest! So much going on, your crafts with Preston sound like lots of fun, and have more fun with him and Allen… belated birthday blessings to Preston, too!
I know what you mean about how we seem to be making the same resolutions every year,. Guess it’s what you said, that we are all always works in progress, and our good Lord is still working in our lives.
Don’t worry too much, and have a good time with you and yours! Your homemade touches to your gifts will be thoroughly enjoyed, I’m sure =)
Merry Christmas, Sandi! Have a wonderful time with your family, and know that you are in my prayers, and I am cheering for you!
Love,
Ellie
Dearest Sandi– I am amazed at how much we think alike haha! I just started working on the same fingerless gloves for my Dad so I can give them to him when he comes to visit in the next month or so. They do run big though I think– Shane has big hands and they are too big for him. Gonna finish the one glove so I can see how it works, then start over. I have lost count of how many hats, and dishclothes I’ve made for Christmas gifts. So fun though.
Darlin you’re not the only one that falls flat– we all do at one time or another. If we didn’t we wouldn’t have need for the Perfect One. John tells us in his epistle that if we say we are without sin, we are liars. Thanks be to God that He can pick us up and dust us off when we fail Him. God bless you dear one.
Love,
Christine
I find that when I see my failings in the light of my need for Jesus, He can work – but when it makes me focus on myself, it’s not productive. I pray that as we turn to a new calendar year you’ll find yourself leaning more and more on Him each day.
Have a delightful Christmas!
Karen
Merry Christmas from our home to yours! Been missing you over at my blog! Take care!
Merry Christmas!!! Love to you and your dear ones!