Sunday Funday December 2022

Prayers and Praises

It was a full December, as Decembers mostly are. My amazing artist friend put on an incredible art show, our church had the annual Babuska tea which means so much to me. We were given tickets to the Nutcracker (it was all of our first time!), and Sofia had a cool STEM presentation at her school. Jessica turned 5 (she is getting so big!) and we had a lovely party before everyone finishing up the school semester and heading to our annual Madison family trip.

It was, unfortunately, it was the same days as the below zero days, but the roads were fine, and our cars were faithful. I’ve just been hit over and over this season what a blessing and gift it is that we are all here, able to relax, and not busy grieving the loss of someone. I know that won’t be true every year, but for this year it was. Actual Christmas day was spent opening presents, talking with family, and watching Christmas movies (and napping). It was a white Christmas, but it had been so cold when it snowed, that the beauty wasn’t as noticable.

It was nomansland between Christmas and New Years, as usual, but was full of special family time that I am working to recognize as the most important things. I was also able to redo the basement and clean out my house, which made me very happy indeed.

Interweb Reads:

My Stuff: Christmas for Missionaries (Podcast), Best Non-fiction 2022 books, Best Graphic Novels 2022, Best Fiction 2022, Favorite book of 2022, Advent 2022, 12 days of Christmastide, My bests of 2022, Lumped in Together (I added a bunch to this old post)

Missionary Stuff: Is it time to ditch the word “Missionary”? (Craig Greenfield), Pocket Guide for talking to Missionaries: Dozens of Missionaries open up about Questions they love and Questions they Don’t (A Life Overseas), How Rich Am I? (Giving What We Can), Swimming in the Stuff of America (Amy Medina)

Christmas stuff: There is no Mary Problem in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (The Bulwark)