I don't feel very bloggish tonight, but I want to add some life updates. The biggest new happening is I'm going back to school! I start in January toward a Master's in School Leadership and Counseling from ATU. It's a milestone that is very important to me, and I'm so thankful for my uber-supportive family for allowing me the privilege...
What else? Housing choices are heavily on our minds lately. (Actually, way longer than "lately", but we're getting closer and closer to acting on the thinking.) Building seems like a stressful endeavor, but buying takes us away from the land. I love my land. It belonged to my great-great grandmother (Myra Green), I've grown up here, and I'm at peace here. Peacefulness is not one of my natural dispositions, so that's saying something. And apart from my self-centeredness, my kids have all the freedom in the world out here to run and explore and grow, and G is pretty content, too. Hopefully by summer or fall of 2012 we'll be ready to start...
But back to now...9 days to Christmas. The kids are very excited. Tori wants a Kindle Fire and an etch-a-sketch, and Adrion wants a race track that goes "up and down and up and down and up and down". I'm looking forward to family time and some moments to pause and catch up with the house, some reading, some projects, etc.
My family is so blessed throughout the holidays, and I'm thankful for all of our indulgences. I know that our reality is far from that experienced by so many others, and I pray for humility in my heart and awareness of opportunity to serve. Love to all.
♥Merry Christmas! ♥
* Below is a picture from the 10th, GrandDad's 80th birthday. Note the blondness of all of his great-grands. :) *
What else? Housing choices are heavily on our minds lately. (Actually, way longer than "lately", but we're getting closer and closer to acting on the thinking.) Building seems like a stressful endeavor, but buying takes us away from the land. I love my land. It belonged to my great-great grandmother (Myra Green), I've grown up here, and I'm at peace here. Peacefulness is not one of my natural dispositions, so that's saying something. And apart from my self-centeredness, my kids have all the freedom in the world out here to run and explore and grow, and G is pretty content, too. Hopefully by summer or fall of 2012 we'll be ready to start...
But back to now...9 days to Christmas. The kids are very excited. Tori wants a Kindle Fire and an etch-a-sketch, and Adrion wants a race track that goes "up and down and up and down and up and down". I'm looking forward to family time and some moments to pause and catch up with the house, some reading, some projects, etc.
My family is so blessed throughout the holidays, and I'm thankful for all of our indulgences. I know that our reality is far from that experienced by so many others, and I pray for humility in my heart and awareness of opportunity to serve. Love to all.
♥Merry Christmas! ♥
* Below is a picture from the 10th, GrandDad's 80th birthday. Note the blondness of all of his great-grands. :) *
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| Scarlett, Emma, GrandDad, Tori, Adrion, Jaxon |
