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November 25, 2005
it's Thanksgiving, and we're thankful for...
What a blessing it is to have been with family to celebrate Thanksgiving. My aunt Martha hitched a ride with a co-worker from North Carolina to Holland and we picked her up at 7:30 Wednesday night at the exit, and immediately made tracks north. Poor girl, she'd just ridden in a car for something like 11 hours already that day, and we added another 4 to it! But having heard the forecast we decided not to wait until morning as originally planned. We arrived at my parents' close to midnight, only experiencing the really blowy stuff once we got as far as Fife Lake, with only an hour to go.
It snowed last week Wednesday and Thursday, as we were flying out to Houston for Binti's wedding... that's Christin, our old roommate from Cairo. But warmer weather over the weekend melted it all away, until this week Wednesday when it started snowing again! And it's been snowing pretty steady since Wednesday morning. Thursday morning, we woke up on the lake with nearly two foot waves, which is quite a feat for such a small lake that my parents live on. But Thursday night just before bed we noticed that there was no longer any wave action on the lake and it had indeed frozen over! This morning when we woke up, instead of the two foot breakers, there was a very serene layer of snow on the lake, with softly falling snow drifting down just like a snow globe. Beautiful.
We are so thankful to have our family around us. We are so thankful for such a beautiful change in the weather patterns. We are so thankful for such a beautiful and God-honoring wedding ceremony that we experienced last weekend. And we are so thankful for a healthy, beautiful baby Eloise that was born this Tuesday to our friends Neil and Melinda in Cairo.
your host for this episode : carrie; November 25, 2005 11:30 AM