Bundle of Joy!

We found out a few weeks ago that we are having a baby! We are so excited, and cannot believe it. We've seen a heartbeat on the monitor, and we have an appointment to hear it on Jan 13th. So far, morning sickness has me down for the count, but it will pass.

Christmas busy vs Christmas Happy

I'm making a goal this year to love every part of the Christmas season. I mean, I always love Christmas, but I often let myself get a little too bogged down with Christmas "to-do" lists. I am going to enjoy the things I do this year!!!

What Stood Shall Stand

I LOVE this arrangement. The song is about the hope of a resurrection, and I cry every time I hear it.

What Stood Will Stand
PAUL HALLEY (b.1952)

What stood will stand, though all be fallen,
The good return that time has stolen.
Though creatures groan in misery,
Their flesh prefigures liberty
To end travail and bring to birth
Their new perfection in new earth.
At word of that enlivening
Let the trees of the wood all sing
And every field rejoice. Let praise
Rise up out of the ground like grass.
Alleluiah! Alleluiah!

What stood, whole, in ev’ry piecemeal
Thing that stood, will stand though all fall.
Field and woods and all in them
Rejoin the primal Sabbath’s hymn. – Wendell Berry, from “Sabbaths”

Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum.
(And I look for the resurrection of the dead)
Et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen. Alleluia.
(And the life of the world to come. Amen. Alleluia.) – Nicene Creed

Finished product

Pumpkin Carving!

Pumpkin Patch

Pictures from Sleepy Hollow