I love new beginnings. Even more, I love that the past few months are behind us. Jesse got home on January 3rd after 4 months in Qatar (the middle East). His stories and experiences are coming out slowly, but suffice it to say that your prayers and mine DID matter and we are very blessed and thankful to have him back home now safely. One of the pics you will see is of Kailtin cutting off the LAST piece of paper on her paper chain with Jesse when he first got home. If you know Kaitlin, you know I mean right when he got home, walked in the front door, to her room, and she made him cut it off with her. She cut off one piece every day for 120+ days. It was the longest darned strand of paper you've ever seen. (but cute, thanks Amy!)
We celebrated a second Christmas here in Charleston (Dec 25th was in Houston with just me & the kids) and had a great morning catching up on everything we didn't do on "normal" Christmas day. Enjoy the pics!
And a little food for thought: I heard this quote watching Criminal Minds this week. It's from C.S. Lewis and it sums up my 2009 well:
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
