Hope Christmas in February

Wednesday was exciting.  Our postman regularly delivers boxes to us a few minutes before 7:00am.  Before we had a school kid, that seemed a bit early.  Now we're thankful it's no later or we'd miss him!  Well, this time it was a bit more exciting than a hard-to-find gluten-free grocery items from Amazon.  It was a box from Hope Fellowship Church!  The kids were beyond themselves with excitement as they remembered the treasures they received the year before from Hope. :)  To their disappointment though, we made them wait until after dinner to unwrap the gifts.

I only managed to take one photo, pre-unwrapping.

But in the last four days, I have read around 30 Curious George stories to the kids (the book has eight, so I think I know them all pretty well now).  Nathanael has assembled all of his new 3-in-1 Lego set, and he took his Mack truck to school in his bag on Thursday and Friday.  Eva sleeps with her new ponies and invites them to her countless tea parties every day.  I have been extremely grateful for my new gloves, and Gregory is giddy over his new nerd books (don't ask me what they are, some theological mumbo jumbo).  We have a pile of English books ready to read next, and we can hardly wait until the snow melts so we can go to a park and play wiffle ball!  THANK YOU!!!!

It's so sweet to hear Eva say, "Mom, can we have a tea party with the gifts from Hope Church?"

We feel greatly loved by you all.  Thanks for pouring into our lives and our ministry here.

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