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Cathartic day

I am overly blessed by such beautiful people in my life. Thank you for your outpouring of love and prayers through this process. Your encouraging words are taken to heart and will stay with me always.

As this is the last day of my official holiday break, and I needed some cathartic activity, I decided to do two of the things I love most, well I suppose it is three actually...

1.spend time with my handsome boy, Caleb
*pics from Christmas Eve - he's so much fun!

2.sew
*there is a purple "Big Sis" shirt already at their house... I'm going to be an Aunt again!!! 
I decided all three of them needed a shirt! So excited to see them in it...
**note to Katie - would like a picture please.  :)
***Caleb helped pic out the fabric for the "Lil Sis" shirt. All fabrics were from Owie Owl scraps!


3.sing & dance
*This video was actually recorded about a month ago, but Caleb and I did sing this song today as well. 
Not sure what it is about the song, but Caleb absolutely loves it!

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While waiting for the video to upload, Caleb and I ran the dog to the vet for an appt. and then went to the store, where I stood in the Lego aisle for ONE HOUR waiting for Caleb to make a decision. He has been saving up his money to buy his "very own set". He was one excited little boy. He kept saying, "this is just so hard to decide." We went through multiple different boxes, combination of boxes, back to the same boxes, and then ended up with a Marvel Super Hero set that....well truthfully... Mom and Dad are really excited about! Legos have always been cool, but in the time since we were kids, they've REALLY become cool. So happy I have a boy and another one coming soon! (not that girls don't play legos mind you!!!)

We are now busy finishing supper and building Legos, then Caleb bedtime, followed by maybe some more sewing...
Good day I'd say  :)

Hope you all have a great weekend! Maybe I'll finish putting away all of our traveling bags and boxes and then upload our Christmas pics....  we'll see how motivated I am this weekend....

In Christ,
Mara


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  1. BethanyJanuary 3, 2014 at 9:27 PM

    Oh my goodness! The end of that video..."you are good at that part"...too sweet! And I really like your scarf. Did you make it?

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