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Category Archives: Holidays
Decorating the church
Some of us stayed after church today to decorate it for Christmas. They fed us pizza!
Continue readingHappy Thanksgiving!
This is a different kind of Thanksgiving than I’ve ever had, I think. I really missed being with my family, but I scheduled something fun to make up for it.
Continue readingFrom Tucson; sorry for the delay!
We did manage to arrive in Tucson on Saturday afternoon. I was so excited to be getting close, I took lots of pictures and had to sort through them all yesterday, so I’m finally ready to report on what has been happening in the last few days!
Continue readingCinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo this year marked the 16th anniversary of Mark’s and my first date! We figured that called for a celebration at a Mexican restaurant.
Continue readingFrom Lordsburg, NM
He is risen! He is risen indeed!
Continue readingTime with family
My sister and her family have been staying at Mom’s house, although Rob has had a bad cold for the last few days and hasn’t been able to do much. But I’ve gotten to do some things with my sister, Lauryn, and my nephew, Nate, as well as Mom.
Continue readingA very family Christmas!
I mentioned at Thanksgiving that I miss the kind of family celebrations we used to have when my older sister, Sherill, was still alive. This Christmas was almost like old times!
Continue readingThe Christmas pageant
I had been looking forward to going to Rise Community Church all week because they announced last week that there would be a Christmas pageant put on by the children in church today. I haven’t seen a Christmas pageant in years!
Continue reading2nd Sunday of Advent
This morning, I went with Mom to Rise Community Church again. The sermon was about John the Baptist preparing the way for Christ. John had an unusual style of preaching. He called his listeners a brood of vipers and said that the axe was ready to cut down the tree to be burned, but since it had been 400 years since the last prophet, people flocked to John to find out what they needed to do to be prepared for the coming Messiah. The answer was that they needed a change of heart, and that’s what we need too.
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