I saw something in a magazine that inspired me to re-cover a bulletin board and make a Thanksgiving Tree. The idea was to spend some time each night during our family devotions to talk about what we were thankful for and write it on a leaf to put on the tree.
Happy New Year from the House of Gjertsen! This year, the holidays were all joy.
Today I got another affirmation of my calling: I am now an officially published author!
Abby: (notices Percy scoot around the corner into the next room) He’s off.
John: (absently) Yeah?
A: He eats paper.
J: Oh. (hurries after Percy)
Sandwiched between the two theme parks was a lot of really sweet relational catch-ups with a lot of our friends. We could have stayed at least another week and still not visited with everyone we wanted to see.