It's Time for Christmas Already?

Wow!! I CAN NOT even believe that Christmas time is here. Where has the time gone? It seems as if only yesterday we were celebrating July 4th. Christmas is my favorite time of the year. There's nothing better than time with family and friends as we celebrate the birth of our wonderful Savior.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Briggs had a mild case of the stomach bug that's going around, which Aaron and I both got by Sunday. Yucky! But other than that, we had a good day.

We have our tree up - we put it up early to do Christmas photos for our little photog business (www.inthemomentpics.blogspot.com). This year we have an artificial tree. This is only the 2nd time I can ever remember having one. I am pretty distraught about that! For me, there's nothing like a real tree that we go and cut down the day after Thanksgiving. Anyway, it's still Christmas! And it seems that it will be our last Christmas as residents of Easley, SC for awhile. Aaron has registered for on-campus classes at Southern that will begin around the 2nd week in January. We will be heading out sometime during the first week of January to our new home in Louisville, which we still have not found!!! Please be praying that God would open doors for us (literally!) to the perfect home. My desire is to find a rental house/duplex so that we can have a small yard for Briggs to play in. I have been praying for God's will because I want to have good neighbors, possibly with small children that Briggs can play with. I know He will take care of it all, but as a woman and mother, I am a worrier. I try not to, but it just comes so natural to me. :)

On another note, I am beginning to NOT want to move. Crazy, I know, because just two months ago I was so ready I couldn't see straight. We have settled in to this house, and I am enjoying being an assistant at MMO. I am also enjoying getting to go to worship for the first time in a long time. And now the thought of having to pack up and leave again is starting to hit me hard. Please pray for us as we transition to Kentucky.

As I've said many times before, we thank each of you for your support and prayers through this journey that we are on. I wish everyone a very blessed Christmas season. May we all take time to put aside the material things and the craziness that the world promotes and focus on the most wonderful gift we could have ever received - eternal salvation through Jesus Christ, as Savior and Lord.