From December 2015

Baking Cookies with Mom

This week Mom and I had the opportunity to bake Christmas cookies together again.  We did it last year for the first time in many years and had a wonderful time.  This year we compiled our list, Dad went grocery shopping, and then we picked the five cookies we would start with.  The list is …

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Six Favorite Christmas Movies

One of the joys of the Christmas season is watching my favorite Christmas movies.  We all have our favorites – the ones we watch year after year – the ones we can recite along with the actors – the ones we sing all the songs to.  I’ve been talking to people about their favorite Christmas …

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Christmas Cards

I finished the Christmas cards yesterday and today they will go in the mail.  This year we sent out 80 Christmas cards.  That sounds like a lot, but taking time to keep up with 80 families once a year isn’t so much.  I wrote about the effort of sending Christmas cards last year.  This year …

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Be the Light

Jesus is the light of the world.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.  John 1:5 Yesterday Tom and I attended worship at Linworth United Methodist Church in Columbus.  This is the church closest to John and Jackie’s house and it is a wonderful church.  Yesterday there were 600 …

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Time with the Older Generation

One of the joys of being in Ohio is spending plenty of time with “the older generation” – my parents!  I ask people sometimes when they feel “old” and they tell me it starts with becoming the oldest generation of their family still living.  Tom has been the older generation for 15 years now! On …

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Stupid Allergies

I have all kinds of stupid allergies and I seem to get more of them as I get older.  I asked my doctor about it and he said that “as you get older your immune system gets weaker . . .”  I have to admit that when he started off with “as you get older” …

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Christmas Lights

This has been the week of the Christmas lights.  The first thing I did when we got parked in Ohio was decorate the RV with our lighted angel.  She has been shining every night and she is beautiful. On Wednesday we went to visit my parents and we helped them put up their outside lights. …

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A Church Family

Yesterday morning Tom and I were able to worship at Peachblow United Methodist Church.  It was the first time since August that we have been able to worship in the morning and it was the first time in a long time that we were able to take communion. We worshiped at Peachblow in July and …

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Mogadore Football

Yesterday Tom and I were able to go to a Mogadore football game.  Mogadore is the little town where we lived for 25 years before beginning our nomadic life.  John went all the way through school in Mogadore and he played football there.  Mogadore is in Division VII in Ohio High School football, which means …

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