The Six of Us

This is one of the few years lately that  I haven't wished would hurry up and end.  Nobody died and nobody got ran over.  We didn't rack up lots of medical due to sick kids.  We weren't trying to figure out how to put food on the table.  We didn't struggle with unemployment or the stress of college.  We had a good year.  I am looking forward to what 2017 brings.  Two kids in middle school one in kindergarten.  Less debt more being me.  I wrote out my goals for 2017.  None of them are huge but they are mine. Life has been good certainly not perfect but good. Looking forward to 2017.  All of the hopes and dreams and newness.  Love love the new year!!!!   

Facebook posted pictures I have posted over the last few years on Christmas Eve.  Awwww....Our kids were so little.  I am quickly losing the baby stage.  Andrew is so excited about Christmas and Santa.  I love it.  Luke is excited because Andrew is.  He hasn't quite gotten the concept.  It is Christmas Eve and I am sitting here at work watching TV while Lee and the kids are home.  I am waiting for the doctor to make some discharge plans.  I am hoping to be out by 1 or 2.  By then the roads should be clear. Here was the Christmas Letter we sent out this year. Lee has been working at Colliers as an accountant for a year now.   He enjoys his job and his co-workers. Lee is a scout leader for the 10-year-old boys at church.   His bike trip this year included his good friend and Lee's dad.   In April Lee and Natalie ran their first (and likely last) half marathon together.     Natalie spends most days runnin...

I have been trying to be more focused on service.  I had a moment that came up that I felt I needed to respond.  So one of the mom's in my old mom's group started selling clothes.  Leggings and such.  She posts the new ones she is selling and then people state if they want to buy them.  I was scrolling through her page and all the comments that others had written.  "those are so cute" " I would love them in my size."  blah blah One of the comments the girl states she loved them.  Long story short she wanted them but her husband had just lost his job and her mother had died all with in a week.  I immediately felt as though she needed those leggings.  I text the girl I knew and told her I would pay for the leggings and she should send them to this girl.  This other person wasn't looking for a hand out.  I have never met her before.  But I knew she needed something to feel as though somebody cared.  In that moment ...