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The New Year

Wow what a year. My time has been so taken up that I haven't even been on the internet for at least a month and a half.
My Christmas was memorable for many reasons; mainly that most of my Christmas was outside of Christmas Day. My family and I held our very first Christmas party three weeks before Christmas. My Aunt's Christmas at her house was the Sunday before the 25th and my Grandfather's Christmas at his house in Oklahoma took place the 29th of this month.
I don't think that I will never forget this past year and the surprises it held for me. My favorite one of these was the gift of a white Christmas. I had actually prayed for a white Christmas but, in my ignorance, didn't believe it would actually happen. My mom told me when I told her this, that if I pray for something I need to fully believe that God can make it happen.
This Holiday season didn't come without it's down sides, though. The day before we were planned to leave for Oklahoma my dad got sick. We weren't sure but that it might be some kind of the flu. We ended up leaving only a day after we were supposed to...without Dad. He didn't want to hinder us from going, so he sent us without him. We ended up having a fun time there anyway; that is, until I started feeling bad. I woke up the first morning with only a slightly scratchy throat. Hot Apple Cider solved helped make that feel better. But the next morning my sore throat was accompanied by a small caugh. Because caughing was one of the symptoms that my dad had, my mom was especially worried. We left that day.
Because I wasn't feeling well, I feared that I would notbe able to go to the annual New Years Eve party at my church.

It's all Over!

Ecc is over. That takes away half of my school work and leaves me without half of my friends. I am going to miss my peeps!

My Favorite Song

The Great Divide

Verse #1: Sometimes we don't see eye to eye

we don't agree, we don't know why.

But Jesus prayed that we'd be one;

so for the sake of God's own son can we put away our bitterness, lay down our pride.

I think it's time we start turning the tide!

Chorus: Shall we gather at the River of Forgiveness?

Come together at the Waters of Love;

Flowing like a fountain from the Mercy Giver.

Shall we gather at the River?

Verse #2: We have all made enemies of

the ones were called by Christ to love.

But there's redeption at the river side.

The water's deep, the water is wide;

it can wash away our bitterness, the current is strong.

I think we've been out in the desert too long!

(Chorus)

Bridge: We can wade into the middle where the healing waters flow;

It only takes a little to heal a wounded soul.

It will only bring us closer than we've ever been before.

This is just what Jesus was prayin' for!

Chorus#2: Come together!

Shall we gather at the River of Forgiveness,

Come together at the Waters of Love

Flowin' like a fountain from the Mercy Giver.

Shall we gather, gather at the river?

Come together at the waters of Love;

flowin' like a fountain from the Mercy Giver.

Shall we gather at the River?

Gather at the River (repeat 4 times).

~by Point of Grace

This Is Me!

My Failed Resolve

Well, my resolve to stay healthy has failed. I didn't get sick the night after I left you last, but I got sick the night afterward. I started getting sick around 2am and didn't get to stop until around 6:30. I pretty much slept the whole next day. While I was still recovering, my Dad also got sick. So, to confirm a point already made, my whole family has now been sick. Luckily, my being sick didn't hinder me from playing in my home volleyball game (we won by the way). But now I'm sitting on my couch with congestion in my chest, no voice from a previous volleyball game, a stopped up nose, and our church's Fall Festival (Festibration) this Sunday. What's worse is the booth that I'm in charge of is a face-painting booth; that means that I'll be in lots of kids faces. My mom says that if my congestion doesn't go away, I'll go dressed up like a doctor so that I can cover my mouth with a face mask. I'm hoping that that won't be necessary, but I can say from experience that it could be worse.
-Katie

A Sickening Weekend

This weekend was an interesting one, to say the least. I mentioned in my last post that I went to the state fair with my dad and one of my twin sisters. While we were having fun (and sweating off our sanity) the other twin was lying in bed, weak from her previous night's stomach virus. She had been up from 2am Thursday morning until 6:30am emptying her stomach. Poor girl! Her stomach was so empty that she had absolutely no appetite that whole day.
When we got home from ECC (that's our morning co-op) on Friday afternoon, my sister was feeling much better. She still didn't eat very much, but she was much stronger. That night, though, my mom got sick with the same thing. I think the virus hit her harder than it hit my sister. I felt so bad for my mom. She was shut up in her room all day because she didn't want to get any of the rest of us sick. But even when the next day came around and strength returned to Mom, the virus had not finished it's cunning work. On Saturday night, it was the other twin's turn to get hit with it. (It's almost as if the virus had planned this, but my biology teacher says that viruses don't have brains.) For fear of spreading the virus to anyone else, my whole family stayed home from church on Sunday. (All except my brother who is in college. We missed seeing him there!) Even I stayed home, just in case. All day yesterday I was thinking to myself, if I don't get sick tonight, I most likely won't get sick at all! Oh, how I wish that that might be true. But I am as well as ever,(except for a little hunger pains- I haven't had any breakfast yet) and my dad hasn't gotten sick either. But the danger is by no means over. Please keep my family in prayer. Pray for strength for those recovering and strong immune systems for those well. TTYL!
-Katie