This is Happiness

It's Christmas!! I am so in love with my boys and iur life together. It gets overwhelming at times. And I get frustrated. But I also have so much joy in our times together.

Last night, we had our fourth annual Book Flood! Sam just laid there. Liam drew in his comic book. And I had thirty minutes to read my favorite book, The Bronze Horseman. All the while, we are lots of cookies and chocolate.

This morning, Liam wanted to hold Sam. "Go make your coffee, Mom. I've got this"

After I went to the basement to put some boxes away, I came back to this, courtesy of a very amused big brother:

And then I had to shower. I left Sam in his bouncer with Liam and hoped for the best (Sam would be safe obviously, just hopefully not fussy! Sam was sleepy). When I came down, Liam was sitting with him, shushing him gently and reading to him from the Santa tracker.

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Keto 2022 Style

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Sunday thoughts

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. Isaiah 1:27 find this quote to really correlates what's going on in the world today where people are turning away from religion and yet still pointing fingers. They're blaming the immigrants they're blaming the people who are separated from their kids and that they're not loving them the way that God has taught us to love people and I just wish that God would surely bring his spirit and his grace

Reflective Sarah

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