Well, here I sit eating an apple and some sliced, processed Provolone - yum!! There is one problem - I love Bizarre foods - the show on the Travel Channel and it's hard to eat anything when people are cutting up octopi and eating it raw - bleck!!
This has definitely been my most difficult Christmas Sason since I've been here. The weather has just been so nasty that no one could make it to visit, and I love the snow so I wanted to be at home with my boy playing in the luscious freezing whiteness of it all.
But it's all good, I've made it through and have all the more character to prove it.
I'll tell you this was also the strangest winter...the Friday before Christmas they informed us that due to rising natural gas prices, they were switching to propane back up and there would only be enough to heat the institution to 66 degrees. That's fine. The next day it was 21 outside. I'm glad I have lots of clothes. :o) Well, on Saturday a couple of water lines broke in Wilsonville so they asked Coffee Creek to cut back on water use. So now cold-as-ice showers - every other day - lovely...
There is this positive though, there are a lot of women here who have forgotten what is truly important in life and I hope a small season without some of the everyday comforts helps them to be reminded.
All in all this is still the time to remember that Christ was born, lived, and died for each and every one of us.
I want to say thank you to everyone who is reading this - thank you for your love, compassion, mercy and grace that you extend not just to me but to the woman you pass on the street - the one who is dirty - strung out, hungry, and in need of the Bread of Life.
Happy New Year!!
By the way - I took my last test at school today and only have my finals to go!!!!!!!
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