It has been a VERY long time since I have posted on my blog, every
day that passes it makes me feel like I should just give up on my blog,
but then in the back of my mind I keep thinking, "no, don't be a
quitter."
Life has been incredibly busy these past few
months. The busyness has been making wonderful memories mostly so for
this I am immensely thankful.
In November we had our
first visitor, my sister. We crammed much into the time she was here
and it was a wonderful time together. We also had a good time with
friends celebrating Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for.
Then
in December, wow, we had our second visitors (my parents), visited a
few Christmas Markets, celebrated Jesus' birth, Gregory memorized his
first portion of scripture for our church's Christmas Eve service,
celebrated Joshua's 4th birthday with lots of friends (and Grandma Judy
got to make another birthday cake).
In January, we
calmed things down a bit...Joshua started pre-school since he was fully
potty-trained! This was a huge accomplishment and we are very proud of
him. We also got news that we could apply for early retirement from the
Air Force.
In February, we completed and submitted our
application to Cadence to be missionaries to the overseas military
youth. We also (as a family) went to the Germany Cadence Middle School
Retreat called Escape. Tom was a small group leader (and Nick's right
hand man), Roxanne helped Nick with Admin duties, while Joshua and
Gregory ran around and had fun with the students and other kids of
Cadence workers. This was all with about 110 students from Stuttgart
and about 140 more from other bases around Germany. It was a great time
for the students to grow closer to God, have fun and build
relationships. For us it was a great time to do ministry as a family
and see how it can still be done with all of us together - as this was
the first time we participated as a family where both Tom and I had
significant roles and we had both of our boys with us.
We
are nearing the end of February and we know that the pace of our lives
is going to pick up again soon, as we are anxiously awaiting news from
the Air Force and praying for the acceptance of our request for early
retirement.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
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