We spent this past week in Arkansas, celebrating Christmas with family and friends from there. We left in shirt sleeves, and we drove back to Virginia across Tennessee in parkas. A bitter cold front walloped the country, and we navigated icy roads and dirty windshield (our washer fluid wouldn’t work!) to make it back to Virginia for my wife’s birthday (12/24) and be here for Christmas Day. (Of course, two stops at the new Buc-ees in Sevierville, TN were absolutely necessary, going and returning.

Oh, the cards…

One of the joys each year is seeing all the Christmas cards from family, friends and church members. This evening, we opened and smiled our way through a stack that had arrived while we were gone.

Thank you to all of you who sent us one!

Because we can’t feasibly send cards to all of you, we post our Christmas card each year.