Girl's Club

One of the girls that has come to club since fall, has now moved away and will not be attending anymore. This is the second girl that has moved away...It makes me sad. I see these girls every week and I will miss them. The only thing I can do for them is pray for them...that's probably the best thing anyway. I love the energy they bring to my Wednesday nights...but then

it is a lot of work to prepare,and I have done it for a long time by now...I'm thinking that this will be my last year...I've said that before and then gotten back into it again, but I think my steamer is getting low...

tonight we worked on a scrapbook calendar and our sewing and our skit...then we played tag...now there's a good work out...next week we are playing glow mini golf

...I'm really tired...

life is rich

Today is a sunshiny day...
and since Christmas I have experienced a lot.

God is good.
He brings people into our lives who cheer us and encourage us...
the hard things don't go away, they seem to stay, but God helps us...this becomes our true riches...and life becomes better as a result.

Today I read..."I am the true vine, and my Father takes care of the vineyard...
He also prunes every branch that does produce fruit to make it produce more fruit"...Jesus

Over Christmas, I learned that hard things actually become good things...
my girls are far away, yes...but we really talk and the times we have together are very precious...which enriches the experiences I have here with my children close by...and now a new gift was given me just today...to realize the care of my niece...wow I'm still crying...this is so precious to me.

I was going to erase those unhappy blogs, but I forgot that part and left my journal open, didn't I?

there is no end to the goodness of God, is there?

my husband is making a fire...how comfortable that will be...

God bless you all

I'm delighted to see...

that no one has read the two blogs before this one.
If I was always to write happy thoughts, I would be a glass horse, just like the glass horse on my desk...never moves and always looks in the same direction, collecting dust.

We have had a very good Christmas...all the kids came home this year. We've had crasy times and some excellent memories have been noted...

I love the fact that we can talk things through and be done with them...on to something else and learn from the last. I've written a whole big journal of this Christmas and I'm happy for all the things that happened.

This year has been a rich Christmas...not wealthy...true rich...