What to put under Oma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner?? That is a hard question. I could do many things, but maybe right now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just talk until I have a better idea.<\/p>\n
I enjoyed my grandkids a lot this Christmas break. I purchased some foam picture frame ornaments and we decorated them and put their pictures in it for their parents. They are really cute. I think that I will have Opa make more pictures so all the grandparents can have a copy. I will have to send David\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to him and see if he will decorate it at home.<\/p>\n
We also had fun making stepping stones. They are almost too pretty to put outside. Maybe we can make more, decorated in different materials and\/or hand prints and foot prints next Christmas (or maybe sooner). That would be fun.<\/p>\n
Also, we had fun at Pottery Smottery. Mark, Andrea and David painted a cocoa mug in a class. They also got hot chocolate to drink and stories. It was fun. Audrey made a mug with her mom and put her hand prints on it. They will be real cute and fun to drink from. I should explain that Pottery Smottery is an open studio where one can go, buy and paint pottery. They have lots to choose from and the price includes the paint and the glazing afterward. The bad part is that one has to wait a whole week to get the finished product. That is a long time to wait for something you have worked on so hard.<\/p>\n
Audrey, her mom and I went for several walks. Mark, David and I and Opa visited Great Grandma at Greencroft Retirement Center. Neither one wanted to leave. They were having fun. They were watching the cat under the chair and discussing the fact that the cat was not used to David because he hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been there before. There they lay, flat on the floor with heads stuck under the chair. David said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think that it is getting used to me. I just pet it gently. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how you get cats used to you. Just pet gently.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Pretty soon, Mark said,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d OK, now let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s see what we have learned.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d David said,\u00e2\u20ac\u009dI know what I learned. Cats can sit up like dogs!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Mark has lots of friends at Greencroft. He gives them hugs and kisses and talks to them, even when he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand a word they say or they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t talk. He is a real little missionary to those people and the nursing staff. One lady was talking to him about his daddy being away in Pakistan. She was saying how terrible the earthquake was and how bad it was to have his daddy gone. Mark just said that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God allowed this to happen so that those people would get to know Jesus.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That lady could only say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, how about that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
We went to church on Christmas Day. David, Mark and Andrea set with us in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153big church\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and did very well. It was Andrea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first time. We went home and had a huge turkey dinner (29 lb. Turkey) and then opened presents after hearing the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rest of the story\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. We read some of Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 birth on Christmas Eve before the grandkids opened the traditional pj\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s from Oma and Opa and then we heard the rest on Christmas Day. It is wonderful to see that even 2yr. old, Audrey, knows that it is Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 birthday we are celebrating.<\/p>\n
The Lord has blessed us with wonderful grandchildren, who are being taught the important things in life. They are being taught about Jesus and how to please Him by learning and reading His Word. They are being taught that others are important. I am so thankful and blessed beyond what I deserve. I continue to pray for them, their parents and uncles, that they would continue to love our Heavenly Father and choose to serve Him and please Him where ever they are. I pray that they would be pure in all ways for Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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