This year, I didnt get Photo Christmas Cards! As a matter of fact, I did something unspeakable...I mailed Christmas Cards in response to the ones I received. THE HORROR! Sorry if I missed ya...it may mean that your card came after the 23rd, I figured after that I wouldnt get it out in time anyhow.
Here are some smiling pics of our year:
What a year!
Audrey has, learned to ski, gone to farm camp, joined soccer, and so much more....
This past May, a newsletter came home from Audrey's Preschool. It noted that the Pre-Kindergarten Teacher was going to be retiring and that the position would be vacant.
I laid the newsletter on our counter.
Jim read it and said, " I think that is your job"
I laughed at him.
But God's plan was certainly just that. I accepted the position in June.
It has been an amazing wonderful challenge. I have my own classroom of 15 kiddos with an awesome assistant. I am surely blessed to work with a group of amazing teachers. Who would have thought that 18 years after I graduated with an \Education degree I would finally be using it.
In July we bought a new camper and parked it permanently at Pettecote Junction Campground in Cedar Run PA. We are so grateful to my mom and dad for landscaping, extending the deck and making it a second home for us. We look forward to spending many weekends in the year to come. It is right along Pine Creek, perfect for kayaking, swims in the creek, biking along the rails to trail. We even have our own eagle pair with twin babies. With it, we bought a golf cart, and goodness knows we need the Dish Tailgater. But, it is a second home!
In August, we traveled to Yellowstone National Park and all of the surrounding points of interest.
10 days in a Class C motorhome with my mom, dad, Jim, Audrey, myself and our turtle Sundance, It was crazy and awesome at the same time! We visited Jackson Hole Wyoming, Rapid City South Dakota and so much more. Too bad the gas prices werent the same now as they were then. LOL! What memories!
Jim has seen some changes with his job at Equipment Depot but has risen to the challenge. He is covering a wider territory, but is enjoying every minute of it. And of course, he is still The Chief. I am pretty sure I will be saying that for awhile. He makes me proud, as I watch him serve our community. Sometimes it gets the best of me, when I put dinner on the table, and the pager goes off, or when we have a plan, but the pager has a different plan. But...being the Fire Chief is who Jim is, so I love him through it.
Audrey is growing like a weed. Seriously, she is 4 ft tall. She is doing well in her classroom (right next door to my own) and I can hardly believe that in 2 months we will be enrolling her in Kindergarten for Fall. She says she isnt ready. I dont think that I am either,
As I type, she is sleeping in MY bed, with visions of Elsa dolls dancing in her head.
Christmas is magical to her. And it makes it magical for us.
She loves her Elf on the Shelf, Cookie, who leaves with Santa to go back to the North Pole Tonight. She has been making her Santa Wish List for months now. I hope that she is pleased with what she unwraps in the morning.
Tonight at dinner, she told us that the best things about Christmas are family, friends and Jesus. That is all I really need for her to understand. She knows the reason for the season. I am so blessed by that!
May the reason for the season, the baby born so simply in a meager manger, no crown for his head even as a king, bring you peace on this Christmas Day. May HIS presence fill your day and the year ahead.
Merry Christmas!
The Salters
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