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Winter Break!!

So here we are in November already and Hannah and I have just started our long winter's break.  I think it was totally worth having school during the summer all things considered.  We haven't had school at all this week, instead we've done projects and read books and watched shows together or played the Wii.  It's been very good for me.

I love how God knows things in advance and puts the answers to prayers in place long before we ever know our need.  I'm constantly preparing for the fact that we are hosting an open house for our church family and keeping mental notes and sending out invites and evites.  It's been one of those things that if I had to repair my home from two months of active Lyme disease dysfunction, teach class, prepare our home and hearts for guests, and breath, something would have given in a big ugly temper tantrum kind of way.  But alas, we don't have school to teach and be concerned about whether or not Hannah will ever learn how to read, we just get to be and take care of things as they arise.  God is good all the time!

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