Thanksgiving Vacay

 My parents and I finally got away to see baby Colton, my parents 22nd grandchild. He is 9 months old already and is full of life and smiles. He started walking holding on to things, and he has so far said Mama, grandpa, and I love you. I'm trying to teach him to say coffee, one of the most important words in the English language. :-) It's been fun being with my sister, Jacqueline, and her husband, Phil. We have stayed up late every night playing games and talking. Tonight Phil deep fried a turkey which turned out amazing. My aunt and her son came, and we enjoyed a good time of fellowship and food. Thursday, we will spend Thanksgiving with my aunt and her family, and then we fly out of Nashville on Thursday night. 

With the many burdens we have dealt with over the last year, and the many more to deal with when we get home, this vacation has been a respite. Please keep us in prayer as we have some very important things to deal with in the near future. Please pray truth will be known and that God will intervene on behalf of some children. We need some very definite miracles.

We will be holding our children's Christmas play on December 11. Please pray that all the kids will know their lines, and please pray that their parents will attend. We are praying for souls to be saved because of this.

Baby JJ has a heart cath coming up, so please pray all is well. Keep my mom in prayer too as we continue to monitor her health and try to help her heal her hip.

Baby JJ!

 Baby JJ is doing so great! The doctors are still amazed that he came home 11 days after such extensive surgery. He had a post op appointment yesterday, and the doctors were very pleased. He is already standing, and today he said my name. He has a CT scan and heart cath coming up to check on the narrow vein he has to make sure the blood is flowing like it needs to.

Please keep my cousin Charlotte in prayer. She has cancer. She had a good appointment for her second opinion, and the doctor wants her to keep doing chemo without radiation. 

Several other family members are having various surgeries in the next few weeks. Prayers would be appreciated.

I am asking for special prayer for  an extreme unspoken request. Only by God's power can this situation be remedied. If only man's words and wisdom are relied on, the devastation for years to come will be extensive.

Please continue to pray for my mom's health. She is set to begin therapy again in a week or so. She will again be starting over because of not having therapy for  five weeks as she recovered from surgery.

Please pray that the 200+ tracts and flyers that we passed out in our town on Halloween  will bring in much fruit. 

There is much unrest in the world. Violence in Colombia, China threatening Taiwan, N. Korea testing missiles, Russia still fighting in Ukraine, hurricanes and flooding in Belize. Please keep the missionaries in prayer.

Due to all the trials our family has gone and is going through, and because my brother's family visited, my mom decided to start decorating early for Christmas. We usually wait until Thanksgiving. Today I decorated our porch and put some lights in our tree outside. It was nice to do a little something out of our routine. Sometimes a little change can brighten up a day.