His Purpose, Not My Plans

I feel that lately I start out every post with something along the lines of, "life is busy" or "I am so busy". But it's so true. I really thought it was just a season of life, and I guess it is. But this feels like a really long season. Don't get me wrong- I am incredibly happy with my life right now. In all honesty, I am so thankful that I am where I am. God has this crazy way of making everything work out, and it is really cool for me to be able to see some of this stuff that I've gone through, come to fruition. Words to describe the month of December.. Fun. Busy. Joy. Love. Sleep. Peace. It was a really really really good month. I could write paragraphs about it. But instead, I'll just put up a bunch of pictures with short captions to highlight the big events of the month. Let me share my month with you…. To start it out, we had the Tennis Club presenting our check to the Florence Area Humane Society on December 3rd. Our club raised ove...

Well. Merry Christmas after Christmas! I just want to say that really and truly I tried to type this post like two weeks ago. But 'tis the season, and the season 'tis busy! It's been crazy, and wonderful. Also, tonight as I start to type this (probably will finish in the morning) I just spent an hour and a half saving pictures and transferring them to my computer for this post, only to realize I did all of that last week. OH Alana. I want to type a whole long post about my Christmas celebrations, and I will. But first I need to share about ANOTHER Christmas celebration. Christmas at the East Florence Mission. It’s a fun night. And this year, I really was kinda put in charge of planning it. We split up the kids, which we normally don't do and did my class on the Tuesday night, and then the older ones Wednesday night. SO I was in charge of my class Christmas party, I guess you could say. I was nervous but really excited. I mean it’s the same kids I...