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Our little family had a rough one this year.  I am pleased to say that despite all of the heartaches and trouble, we are in the Christmas spirit and enjoying the holidays.  We are looking forward to what the God has planned for us in the year to come.  I am thankful for what he has already done for us and how he has changed our lives and how all things glorify Him. So what have I been up to lately?  Coming out of the forest has made a big difference to what I have "felt" up to doing.  I've taken up a "hobby" if you can call it that helping out a friend restore his WC35 ( I think).  It's been a learning experience as to what goes into restoring a historic military vehicle.  I also have learned a lot of its engine parts and how to clean and paint them for installation. I've knitted a partial mitten and then discovered it would be too big to wear and realized the yarn was most of the problem.  I also knitted a purple monkey for a friend who asked...

2014 was quite a year. my best girl buddy and I have challenged each other to write out what we accomplished during 2014.  and looking back, there have been some significant changes in our lives. specifically, the way we view ourselves, progress towards being happier and more confident.  there we didn't set a goal to make these changes, we really just saw things that we wanted to do or do differently after meeting other people and then made those changes. I didn't have the opportunity to meet a lot of people or growing up, so seeing how these new people behave and the kind of warm and mushy feelings I got was the primary motivation to making changes.  once I shared that with my buddy, we both decided we need to make a few adjustments.  we decided to work on the things that scared us (actually try things we wanted to do) but didn't have the courage. and have a better grasp on those things called feelings and then expressing them appropriately. funny how this ...