THE COZY KETTLE: our boys

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

~ True Christmas Blessing ~

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We feel particularly blessed, this year. Not because of store bought gifts but because Mister's 2 boys were here for an entire week!! I know you haven't heard of them before....there are a few reasons why. The relationship with their mother at times has been somewhat....let's just say....trying. That's all I'm going to say....I know you understand. They have been here several times this year and I have always felt horrible....not including them in my life here in bogland. After all....I post about our life and the boys are a BIG part of it.

I know you will welcome them with open arms.

This is the first Christmas in 11 years that we have had the boys on Christmas....it was super special. I think I cried every day.....good tears. They do not live in our state so we do not get to see them as often as we would like....but that has slowly begun to change over the last 12 months....mainly due to the oldest Nick who turned 17 on 12/23. We had a surprise party for him ( I will share that with you later ). The youngest J.S. is 15 1/2. You don't know how good I feel being able to share our entire family with all of Y-O-U!! Whew!!!

Thank you....I know you will love them.

Now, there are no more signs of Christmas in our home.....although I miss being surrounded with our Christmas treasures....there just isn't any room. We took our tree down Christmas night. All the ribbons and our old & new ornaments are lovingly packed away until next year....sigh.

I wanted to share our Christmas pictures with you. Here we ALL are on Christmas Eve. We went to a beautiful candle light service at our church....where Nick made a profession of faith....WOW....it was amazing to witness him that night. Then we came home and took lots of pictures.....real pictures and super silly pictures.

We had a blast!!

Do you see how short Mister looks....lol. He is 6'2" and Nick is 6'5". J.S. is now 6". Unbelievable. I stand at a staggering 5'2 3/4 ha....imagine how very small I felt. :)