December Day #9

I thought I'd start today's post with something a bit different.  We don't live and breath Christmas in December, we do other things too!  
Here are Crystal and Blossom feeding our pigeon Josh (that's his real name not an online alias).

Just landing for a peanut.  

And another peanut!

And off he goes.  

So today our angels were sitting with Butterfly's things and holding a card that said "I'm trying to be like Jesus".  

Our devotional obviously was about that.  We become more and more like Jesus by reading His word.  His word gives us wisdom and strength, which in turn allows grace to come out of us.  
Ecclesiastes 10:12 "the words of a wise man's mouth are gracious."
A wise man becomes wise from reading God's Word, and his words are pleasant.


Blossom and Butterfly opened books today.

The books are: 

• The Patricia St John Christmas Book.  This has 4 short stories by Patricia St John taken from 4 of her novels.  We read Tanglewoods' Secret excerpt called A Perfect Christmas.  If you have never heard of Patricia St John you really should read a book or two of hers!  
• God's Precious Gift In A Manger tells the story of Jesus from the creation perspective, focusing on the WHY he came.

We spent some time today visiting with friends and making some Christmas craft.  Tomorrow I will post a photo of the pretty stars we made for our window.

Dinner needs a mention here today.  A Facebook friend shared a picture of a creative way to do meatballs.  As planning would have it, meatballs were on the menu tonight so I tried the idea she shared.

Meatball Subs and pasta with fresh tomato sauce.
Meatball recipe sourced from this website.

~Lorna