My Birthday

Today is my birthday! I have to say that I really don't feel my age and I'm truly thankful to God for that!

For you history buffs here's some interesting facts for December 28th:

Today in History

1688		William of Orange makes a triumphant march into London as James II flees.
1694		George I of England gets divorced.
1846		Iowa is admitted as the 29th State of the Union.
1872		A U.S. Army force defeats a group of Apache warriors at Salt River Canyon, Arizona Territory, with 57 Indians killed but only one soldier.
1904		Farmers in Georgia burn two million bales of cotton to prop up falling prices.
1920		The United States resumes the deportation of communists and suspected communists.
1933		President Franklin D. Roosevelt states, "The definite policy of the United States, from now on, is one opposed to armed intervention."
1936		Benito Mussolini sends planes to Spain to support Francisco Franco's forces.
1938		France orders the doubling of forces in Somaliland; two warships are sent.
1946		The French declare martial law in Vietnam as a full-scale war appears inevitable.
1948		Premier Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt is assassinated by a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood because of his failure to achieve victory in the war against Israel.
1951		The United States pays $120,000 to free four fliers convicted of espionage in Hungary.
1965		The United States bars oil sales to Rhodesia.
1968		Israel attacks an airport in Beirut, destroying 13 planes.
1971		The U.S. Justice Department sues Mississippi officials for ignoring the voting ballots of blacks in that state.
Born on December 28
1856		Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States.
1882		Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astronomer who confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity.
1902		Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher, educator and writer.
1903		John Von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician. Some other interesting facts from 1969: Yearly Inflation Rate USA 5.46 % Yearly Inflation Rate UK 5.6% Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 800 Average Cost of new house $15,550.00 Average Income per year $8,550.00 Average Monthly Rent $135.00 Average Cost New Car $3,270.00 Toyota Corona $1,950.00 Gas per Gallon 35 cents Alarm Clock from Westclox $9.98

I look forward to another year and pray that God continues to bless me more than I deserve!

I'm here

I am alive. I promise! As to the blog, I've been really bad about it. When I first set up this blog it was to journal our adoption process. Once that ended, I told myself that I would continue with it with every day life. But as you can see my everyday life doesn't have all that I need to keep up with posting every day.

I do hope to get better with the new year. I hope to blog in pictures more this next year. But we shall see.

We had a good Christmas but I have to say, my heart just wasn't in it this year. Our Christmas eve was especially hard for me. We have a special time during the service when all the children come down front and have a story time with our Children's minister. It really hit me this year that we'll probably never have a child experience that. I'm sure it didn't help that the stage was completely overflowing with children too.

I love spending time with my family and really enjoyed Christmas with all of them! We have lots of fun when we all get together!

I pray that this new year will open up new opportunities for me, especially with missions. I really want to look into going on a mission trip. Perhaps I'll need to put that on my to-do list.

We do have our Disney trip to look forward at the end of February! Can't wait for that!!

Happy New Year!