Family of Nuts

I don’t know why I let what other people say affect me so much…I guess I just think too much. Just recently (at Christmas) I was asked if I have had contact with my brother and if I knew if he still lived in Vancouver. My answers were NO and YES.

Okay, so if you have known me for whatever length of time you might not know that I DO have a brother. It is true I have no contact with him, but I know where he lives and all that. In fact, I have a niece, aunt, uncle and cousin who all live here in Vancouver. I have regular contact with my cousin – not much contact with my aunt & uncle and no contact with my niece. Anti-social? Maybe…but I have endured many issues during my growing up years and my self-imposed no contact order keeps me sane.

Now, you might be thinking, “Well, what about Tom’s family?” Well, with all the issues that I have with my family – if you know us, you know that the Bennett family is not without issues – and a no contact order is not an option.

On the flip side…

We have been regular attendees/members of Felida Baptist Church for almost 20 years and we have been blessed to have such a great group of friends who we consider family because really, they are the ones who know us best - the good, the bad AND the ugly! Our friendships go back for almost as long as we have been at Felida. That’s a long time to get to know one another and to grow in faith with one another and to call these friendships GOOD. If I could choose a new “immediate” family I would choose each one of my close friends AND the cool part is that the other people that don’t make the first cut are our extended family. Simply stated, love my church family. We are definitely a family which includes a crazy “aunt” or two and the weird “cousins” that live under a rock or whatever – hahaha! The great thing is that I know their heart attitude and I know that with each member of my church family, Jesus is right there in the middle of it all.

God knew exactly what we needed when he guided us to Felida so many years ago so that we can be a part of a fabulous family of Jesus followers!

It's The Most Wonderful Time...

of the year...and I'm pooped!

In the last 3 weeks we got our tree, messed up the house, dressed the tree and decorated the house and I did some baking and made other goodies to give away. We both went Christmas shopping for gifts and - in the midst of all this we went to work and to the gym and ran errands and did all the regular stuff too. I don't know how we manage to do all the extra stuff in addition to regular life, but we do it year after year.

This year I decided to make Granola and Whoopie pies to give away as gifts.

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Nativity

 Haven't had much time to post much of anything...this was sent to me by email...ENJOY!

In Transit...

my new toy is on it's way!

Kindle fun will soon begin. This is so weird because I'm SO not into techie toys or anything. I don't even have a cell phone anymore, although, that problem should be remedied in March (free fone time). Anyway, a co-worker of mine let me mess with his Kindle here at work and I decided that this techie toy made sense!

Hopefully by lunch time tomorrow I'll be unpacking my new little e-reader...

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Book Collecting Will Come To An End...

in 5-8 business days!

 

I've got me a kindle on order from Amazon.com and it should be arriving well before Christmas. It's like a little bit of a December bonus...I can't wait!