Christmas Blessings from our family to yours!
Last year we celebrated our 1st Christmas with Eddie, although he had no idea that we were celebrating anything at all. This year has been different already. He is into everything, especially the Christmas tree & decorations. He also enjoys seeing the lights and ornaments as we are out and about. It’s fun to watch the magic of Christmas come to life through your child’s eyes. We are so thankful for all this year has brought us. We’ve had a great time raising Eddie. It’s a blast to see his personality develop more and more each day. He’s a very happy boy, loves people, knows no stranger, and has John’s energy level (too bad John is working all day). He is now walking lots & talking some. His words include ball, dada, momma, this, up, truck, outside, hot, hat, light, bike and a few others. We look forward to watching Eddie continue to grow and change, although a part of me wishes I could capture a little bit of each new stage and bottle it up.
John is a Grrreat Dad and has really filled that role perfectly. Eddie truly loves his Dada and I know the feeling is mutual. Aside from parenting (sometimes it seems there isn’t time for much else) we feel blessed because of John’s work. John continues to work as a manager for Medi-Share’s Health Initiatives Department and Lord willing will continue this as long as he is called to. John is still passionate about working to help people reach their full health potential and in my opinion has a real talent for it. As a former employee working side by side with John I’ll brag on him a bit and say that co-workers often sent him the people they had been challenged by and John always has a knack for being able to help people see things in a different light. In addition to work John’s talents in home renovations have helped us make our house into a place we love to call HOME. We’ve wrapped up the majority of our renovations and celebrate with a sigh of relief. After 3 years we welcome the break.
In 2008 we’ve been blessed to do a lot of traveling. We took full advantage of Eddie not being “on the move”, packed our things with him in tote and traveled to Indiana (twice) to visit my family. A 12 hour plane trip took us to beautiful Hawaii for 3 weeks where John was able to surf the waves, shape his very own surfboard, with the help of a friend in Kauai & then travel to the Big Island to spend time with his brother Baron’s family. We also traveled to N.Y. State to visit John’s parents at their summer lake home on Lake Ontario, which we look forward to making an annual event!
As for me, I am blessed to be able to stay home each day with Eddie and be fully involved in his life. I’ll have to say that Motherhood was challenging for me in the early days and even months. Change is never something that I’ve welcomed and change definitely happens with a new little one! However, I can now say that I feel comfortable, more confident and so happy that I’ve grown into my role as a Momma. Motherhood also has helped me to see the Lord in new ways. He is forever faithful, cares about every detail of our being whether we feel it’s significant or not & He is always, always by my side. We are hopeful to grow our family in the upcoming 2009 and will be sure to keep you all updated there! .
So for each of you, we pray that you are blessed this Christmas with the love and joy of family and friends. We also pray that the love of the Lord shines in you and through you and that you may find peace in knowing Him.
In Christ, John, Katie & Eddie
By the way, if you aren’t already keeping up with us on the online blog be sure to check out the latest at www.loveeddie.blogspot.com . I try to update things a few times a month so you can watch Eddie’s latest & greatest! The slideshow above is a quick recap of 2008, just click the play feature to view them!
