The last few days have finally felt like I am truly on a break from school.
What a beautiful experience it is to have rest!
Yesterday, due to the good fortune of delayed airplane flights,
I was blessed to spend an entire afternoon
with my dear friend, and my Resident Assistant at school, Ruth.
{this is what it looked like, with tea and yummy soup to sprinkle it with some flava flave}
It was a pure
de~light
to hear how her heart is being
strengthened
as she has experienced the greater extent of her
weaknesses
throughout this semester.
How grateful I am to know a woman like her!
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Today was a day for catching up and traditions.
I snegged lunch and some time in one of my favorite
hometown spots with an old friend.
{looking out on my city, so lovely}
Sean has been such a good friend my whole life.
We realized today that we literally went to school
together from preschool until high school graduation.
He's the only one I've had that with.
What a joy to have such consistency in my life.
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Tonight was an evening of family.
One of my favorite Christmas rituals each year.
An evening pre-Christmas spent
with some dear family friends.
They are such wonderful people.
We always consume copious amounts of
bread rolls, soup and sparkling apple cider.
White Elephant gifts are exchanged.
And Bingo is played to a mad happy extent.
Christmas seems to be a time when
family
doesn't just mean you have to be related.
When we got back, my mom had
pre-Christmas gifts
for me and my sibbas to open.
*GIANT* Gingerbread Men!!!
{mine had weird bumpies on it's face, all gb men are different}
We cranked up the Christmas music
and channeled our inner-cookie-decorating skills.
I decided to make mine into a gingerbread grandfather.
Gb's age too, ya know?
I started with his heart and then made eyebrows.
And suspenders.
Those are the things that matter you know?
Oh and his left arm is in a cast.
He fell whilst playing Christmas bocce ball in the snow.
{whattastud}
It has been a thoroughly joy-filled week.
I am grateful for each moment...
the tastes...
the smells...
the images...
the people...
and the hugs, always the hugs.
{grateful and ever so blessed is this Maddy in this pre-Christmas time}
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