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Monday, April 5, 2021

Easter

Easter was beautiful this year. Our first warm, sunny Spring day. It felt so good. It was also extra glorious to be TOGETHER this year on Easter compared to last year. Last year I had to go to church alone to live stream the service while Mitch and the kids and everyone else watched separately from home. I got teary eyed playing piano and seeing and hearing all the voices singing together at church yesterday. Last year we stayed home and only zoomed our families. This year we spent it together and it was wonderful.

Just beautiful.

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.

Worship the Lord with gladness;

come before him with joyful songs.

Know that the Lord is God.

It is he who made us, and we are his;

we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving

and his courts with praise;

give thanks to him and praise his name.

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;

his faithfulness continues through all generations.

-Psalm 100

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Christmas 2020

Christmas was good this year. A little bit different, but still so good.

A few of the minor differences...we mailed letters to Santa instead of visiting him and and didn't have any Christmas programs to go to other than our recorded piano Christmas special.

We built our first lego Christmas village set which we hope to add to each year from now on. We watched a million Christmas movies and had fun incorporating things like baking christmas cookies and Polar Express day into home school. :)

But ultimately, we celebrated the Advent season, attended Christmas Eve service, and Christmas morning still came as usual and was full of joy!

We missed out on some "extra" family gatherings like Aunt Dee's, the Curtis family gathering and we even had to miss Grandma Margaret's Christmas this year because of time conflict, but we were still able to be with the Carlins (except Mitch had to stay home with "sick" Kallie) and the Clevelands (with the Minnesota families through Zoom).