Where to from here?

So much has happened since my last post. Our family has finally regained good health after several colds which followed the stomach virus Millie had. It is so good to be healthy and enjoy the blessings of the Christmas season. We have started some new traditions, such as going through an advent calendar with Millie (which tells the Christmas story in lines of poetry), memorizing the Christmas story from Luke 1-2, and listening to lots of Christmas music. We usually make gingerbread cookies for Christmas, but with all my bustling about making Christmas gifts and Royce's graduation from Southern Seminary...that seems to have fallen by the wayside. I still have hopes of getting cookies made, but we'll see how that pans out. We decided to make most of our Christmas presents this year, which has saved us a lot of money and given me a great deal of joy. I really am enjoying the crafts I am making for family Christmas gifts. Millie and I had a blast going through the craft store and finding things to make for gifts (even with her being up past her bedtime!). There's just something about getting my creative juices flowing that has made this Christmastime so pleasant. Going through the Advent calendar with Millie has also brought me great joy as I remember God sending his Son Jesus in the flesh for my salvation. I'm beginning to really understand what grace is and how to live in it. I have much more to learn, but the taste I have had of it recently has really lifted a burden of guilt that I had been carrying around. Seminary graduation kept us busy as well. Royce got his final assignments finished, including a take-home final exam, a few days before Thanksgiving. We then had to figure out who was coming to the graduation ceremony and try to find out the details so that Royce would have all loose ends tied up and be in the right place at the right time for the ceremony. We enjoyed the graduation reception that the Mohler's hosted at their home the day before graduation. I always enjoy going into Dr. Mohler's library (which takes up the entire basement of the large residence that is the President's home) and drooling over his extensive collection.