Anyways, we have been going full force all week long...recovering from thanksgiving break that is. I almost, almost forgot how much of a booger those darn 1st grade spelling tests are. Goober and I ended one night in tears from both of us over these two horrible horrible words, that should be deleted from our english language anyways....insect and brisk.....urrggh. We ended up hugging it out but there for a minute I thought we would never speak to one another again.
We also have been trying to send out Christmas cards ( look for Goob's awesome stamp work on the back of the envelopes), buy everyone's christmas gifts, make everyone a homemade gift and keep up with Advent--so far we have learned that Jesus is coming and that Ezra and Nehemiah are declaring a Savior...but he has yet to come...due to our schedule. Hopefully Jesus will be born this week and we can see who comes to visit him while in the manger.
This morning (saturday) we went to eat breakfast with Santa. It was really neat and a great idea for little ones. We ate pancakes and sausage (goob ate twice as much as I did..and he had already eaten at home too :)...can you say GROWTH SPURT). Then they went and visited with Santa and got their picture taken. Goober told Santa that he wants a "Nerf Gun" and Ribbit told him that she wanted a "Princess".....whew, thanksfully Santa is going to be able to follow through on those :). Then we got "silly faces" face painting done. Goober got a christmas tree and Ribbit got a "twinkle little star". We came home and cleaned out Goober's entire closet and dresser....the kid has way to many clothes...1/2 of which don't fit. So we sorted them, made a donate stack, a throw away sack, and a yardsale stack. His room likes a completely different world now. Then we watched some football, napped and went next door......
We are truly blessed. Not only did we move right beside my work, into a huge beautiful home ( with an island) but we moved right beside some very energetic, preach the word Messanic Jews. They invited us over tonight to celebrate the end of Shabbat (their Sabbath) and to watch a movie that their home church just finished making. We participated in Hebrew prayers, communion (their way), dinner (rabbini kosher with homemade hummus, pita, hallah bread) and then dessert. Our kids played with the kids from their home church and we just got loved on. Adam took over some of his artifacts and had the attention and awe of everyone as he spoke with such knowledge and intelligence about this land that they have such a longing for and connection to. Ribbit also put on a show during the movie..she went and stood in front of the TV and danced....shrugging her shoulders and stepping really high...she had everyone in stitches..i was sweating so bad because i was both laughing and praying that people would think she was being more cute than annoying.It was awesome. They are great neighbors and we can learn a lot from each other.
Tomorrow we are going back to the church we visited last week and fell in love with....Thank you God!!! Then we have a birthday party to attend and then we will hopefully go see one of my students in a walk through Bethlehem tomorrow night.
As if this post wasn't already long enough, I am going to attach some more pictures of my parents visit with us over Thanksgiving!
Making cookies--with our neighbors!!
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