I realized the other day just how many binders and notebooks and journals I have and I decided to take a picture of the ones I am currently working in. It makes me smile. You might ask what they all contain. Notebooks from the left...Financial Info Notebook, Prayer Intentions Notebook, Book List Notebook (and reflections on what I read), Daily Prayers Notebook, Gospel Meditation Journal (currently working on the Gospel of Luke using The Better Part by Fr Bartunek), My Weekly Planner Notebook, My Holy Hour Notebook, and a beautiful journal I received from my daughters :) Binders are from the left...Family binder (articles etc regarding family life and other inspirational articles), Binder of Beautiful Things (clipped from old magazines), Recipes and Menus Binder, Living the Liturgical Year Binder, and my Daily Health Journal binder.
Here are our precious 4 on Christmas morning just after they opened the gifts that filled their stockings. With a few exceptions we have spent our Christmas Eve's at Granny and Papa's and Santa fills their stockings to open there. The morning after we return home we have our own Christmas. This year we had to wait until the last minute to see what the girls work schedules were going to be to see how it would all play out. We were blessed that both girls were off in time to make it to Canton to celebrate with Granny, Papa, Aunt Maureen, Uncle Larry, Ben, Hannah, Aunt Patty, Uncle Tim, Timmy and Madde. Michelle had to work the morning after Christmas so when we returned home on Christmas Day it was present time...well as soon as mom and dad wrapped the last few presents. I did feel some disapointment over not getting to experince the early morning wake up to open presents but how could I dwell on that when I am blessed to have an amazing husband and 4 beautiful children and we were all together under one roof. We ended the day with a lively game of CLUE.
