Hallelujah and Praise God! What a wonderful Gift we have & reflecting time in our hearts as we celebrated the birth of our Lord and Savior on Christmas Day. And now we come to the year-end close with shouts of “Happy New Year!”. 

For the first time in some years we will bring in the New Year right from our own living area. We are missing our PCB time. 

Holiday celebrations are usually spent with family and/or friends. Travel is fun whether just a short drive down the road or the 9 hour drive to Carolina. The anticipation of seeing ones makes it all the more special 

This year, at least for us, is different. We made decisions together about the way we did life. We have continued to practice safe measures since our President declared a National Emergency & our Governor declared a State Emergency back in March against the Coronavirus Pandemic. It has been a long, long year. 

I did do something once, and my husband wasn’t too pleased with me. We are still married! 

For loved ones and friends, our hearts broke with you as you or one of your family members were affected by the virus. We grieved at the loss of family & friends during this pandemic. We promise to continue our prayers for you. 

As we close out this year of being stressed with mandates of social practices such as “stay-at-home”, “mask up”, 6-ft apart, etc and of virus uncertainty, we have vaccines being shipped around the world for controlling and even shutting down this pandemic. We pray.

Our God is a loving God. He is our strength.

He is in and thru this pandemic.

Hold on to Him. God is faithful.

May we also be faithful this 2021 year.

#pandemicrecapblogpost...3/19/20

#Godhasthis

#faithandtrust

~ Merry Christmas ~

and a 

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Our Skype Day with F2

We opened our gifts first...

outdoor solar yard lights for me

and a Lowe's gift card for Glenn.

kids waiting anxiously for dad

to open their gift bag from us

a bag of bakery goods

a magnet from the kids 

to their parents

Hannah loves tin butter cookies.

She also got a "foot spa pack".

I just didn't have my camera ready.

Garrett opens a gift...

his UNC Yeti and UNC wallet

Garrett's UNC sports chair

Hannah's KitchenAid Mixer

(the bowl is in the sink as they

have already made a red velvet cake.)

three dozen "red" golf balls

a pillow made by me for the pups

to give to their parents

...and some spending money.

Although we were unable to be 

with them at their home,  

we enjoyed Christmas gift opening 

and visiting via Skype.

And then we had lunch.

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Our Family Christmas Memory

"Operation Heal Our Patriots"

christmas tree lights shine

in a darkened room

and splay a guide across the floor

and bring a reflecting of another night

when a lone light shone

to guide and announce

a most treasured sight

the babe in a manger

Jesus

Merry Christmas Eve

A Savior Born

ROUND TWO: right eye cataract extraction

Monday's appt w/Sugg was good. Left eye healing as expected.

We left and traveled to Dothan Surgery Center.

Praying for this procedure to be 

just as smooth as was the left eye.

~ HOME ~

...relaxing in comfy clothes on the couch

All went well with the surgery.

When I was able to take the patch off my eye,

I experienced blurring & double vision...

which is common at times.

Although common, it is quite a play for the mind.

As we were preparing to eat that night, I placed

my glass on the counter & began to pour my drink.

With a laugh & a "Oh, darn!" I was pouring my drink

into the glass...which wasn't there...

into the "double vision" glass.

LOL...the mood changed.

This morning my vision was 

exactly where I wanted it to be.

My appointment with the doctor was good.

Both eyes were healing as expected.

By the first of next week I should be

with a vision of 20-20...and

not needing to wear glasses of any kind.

Yay!

GARRETT GETS A HAIRCUT

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

...still has my heart

 1:15 PM…

then a call to reschedule to 11:30AM…
YES, let’s do this.
 
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Friday I began a series of eye drops
in my left eye in preparation
 of cataract surgery.

 
This morning we drove to Dothan Surgery Center
 for the procedure. I was seated for
approximately 30 minutes when I heard my name called.
Glenn was not allowed to sit in the facility with me.
 
With the call of my name & a brief check of the armband,
the nurse escorted me to my assigned area
where I put on the official gown and suction type socks,
 
Prompt, professional service from medical staff
carried out their assigned duties as they prepared me
for cataract extraction of the left eye.
 
It’s over! A quick procedure and very short recovery
(go ahead and get dressed),
and we drove home.

 

Well, until this Friday…..when we begin 

the same process for the right eye. 

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~ my grandfurs ~

 

So Glenn comes through the back door last night and says, “Come, you gotta see this.” 

We love an interesting sunset.

a pillow made

 pecans packed from cracked nuts

 a sign painted

knife block painted

a garden flag

 For the past few days we have had low, low temps in the mornings. As you will see in the following pictures, several of my yard shrubs and/or plants got "bit". It has been some time since my shrubs looked so pitiful.

I uncovered what we had bunched and covered for temp protection so they could get some fresh air & sunshine. They all looked pretty good. We will leave them bunched as we will cover them back up on Monday for another round of more low, low temps.