huzzah! we have returned!

hi all!

well, it's been a dark and troublesome valley these past few weeks on account of the inability to post! but now, all is well with the world and we are in the clover.

so, Christmas and all that. it was awesome. let's just sum it up quickly, shall we?

Christmas cards (that was a jolly task!)
Christmas shopping
First annual church Christmas feast (for which joe and i hit the kitchen)
Caroling for the elderly
Christmas hymn sing
Freeman family Christmas
Christmas eve service
Christmas eve fondue
Christmas day with the Freeman and Carlson families combined, complete with a board game or two.

oh, and add in joe's 50 hour work weeks, my holiday work load, my candida food restrictions, and the cleanse regime of six packets of pills a day for six weeks, i'd say we were about full up on things to do.

but, God is SO kind, and we sailed through it all with great delight and only a few moments of insanity. :) and, we praise Him for His proclaiming that we should not be sick for these days. he has blessed us greatly.

the festivities can get crazy. but what's so neat about them is that they urge us to get busy living robustly and joyfully now that Christ has come! our life - our senses and experiences, our speech and our thoughts - becomes heightened because our Savior is now a reality! so it makes sense that our calendars fill up with all kinds of squiggles that tell us to go here and be there and do this and that.

we have pictures, so if blogger continues to be agreeable, we shall be posting them forthwith. happy new year to all you sweet friends!

"we have our hope set on the living God who is the Savior of all people."