Something borrowed, something blue... or really "Everything borrowed, everything blue"

The Ward family has made it safely from our lil apartment on the mountain in Haiti to the airport and then to Miami and then Nashville with just minutes to spare even though we had over 4 hours of layover time "planned"... the day didn't play out the way it was "supposed" to... but, we walked in to the Young family home early, early Tuesday morning in White House, TN and laid our heads down and rested. First thing, Chris had some office work to do and the girls went to Genny's house to "borrow" a trunk load of winter clothes. We were QUITE happy. So, when you see us in our cute boots and puffy vests - you must know it's not our clothes - it's on loan from sweet Genny Dixon! We have 5 different styles and colors of cute boots between the two of us! What a treat! We even got warm gloves, hats and a purse! We are ready to hit the town! We made a couple stops in to Goodwill looking for more "checked bags" to carry back to Haiti. They take a beating every time they are jam packed with 50-70 lbs of supplies when we go. So, they can only survive SO many trips... before we need "new" ones. Very thankful for thrift stores!

We thoroughly enjoyed our few days with the Youngs including an "Acoustic Christmas" program Wednesday night and dinner with our small group from our "Church at Pleasant Grove" Thursday. Thank you Tammy Young for the perfect Christmas gift to us... a 2015 calendar with photos of all those we love on an 8 X 10 each month with birthdays included! Friday we got up and took Thomas with us on a quick trip to West Virginia to see my dad and fam. We were able to shop at the Barboursville Mall (and run in to an old friend from high school who reads the blog), eat Tudor's Biscuits and shared Jim's Spaghetti for lunch today at Uncle Dave and Aunt Cindy's house! What more could we ask for? We enjoyed seeing Gramps & Kaylene, Shelby, Skylar & Markus along with Tyler & Melissa and Whitney, oh, and Gracie, too!!

Now, we are snuggled up ready to sleep SOUND at Aunt Sandra's in Louisville looking forward to seeing our faith family at Ormsby Heights in the morning! Let the festivities continue! We look forward to catching a hug from everyone and all that this week will entail! 

I'm not going to lie - it is kinda hard living between two worlds... Haiti and the US... kinda like living between Heaven and Earth... longings that can't be explained, emotions that can't be contained, and plenty of questions yet to be answered. We're just going to just soak it all in. Because it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Merry Christmas to you! Do not forget that the reason for EVERY season is Jesus.