We are busily preparing some sprinkles of encouragement for you for December. Think of it as our plate of homemade holiday cookies to you. Let’s start off with our recipe (plan) for doing that. I like to know what’s coming next, don’t you?
Every December is typically chock full of extra things on our calendars. Holiday parties. Shopping. Baking. School events. Relatives we rarely see. Increased volunteering opportunities. Making our lists and checking them twice.
All positive things for us, hopefully. Sometimes not. December can also mean squeezed budgets. Too much sugar. Too little sleep. Increased end of the year demands at work. Separation from loved ones. Loneliness.
Good, bad or neutral, this last month of the calendar year still often means extra pressure. So, we thought we’d open up part of our family’s story to you that many have never seen or heard. In other words, we want to offer you some sprinkles of encouragement in December.
six sprinkles
Our youngest son – Luke – joined our family through open adoption. When he was born in California, we dropped everything and went. He came as a sweet surprise after a very long wait. A four and a half year wait to be exact. When the sudden phone call came announcing our adoption placement match with Luke, I almost sprinted the 2,300 road miles to get to him. However, Allan wisely suggested we take a plane. Turns out the distance by air is only 1,988 miles. So, I guess Allan had the more reasonable reaction.
Speaking of air travel, gate B17 at our outbound airport held a very meaningful surprise, which we will tell you about in this series. Stay tuned for sprinkle #4 on December 16th titled, “the sparrow and the surfer dude“. It’s probably my favorite sprinkle of all.
I wrote six email updates home from Sacramento covering the ten days we were in California. Those emails cover some wildly miraculous events. And I do mean WILD. We will share those with you publicly throughout the next month beginning this coming Sunday. Six emails means six December blog posts. In other words, six “sprinkled cookies” of encouragement from us to you. Our first cookie comes out of the oven on December 1st. We hope you enjoy it and the sweetness that follows!
All of us here at the thankful bee sincerely wish you hope, joy and humor this holiday season. Be encouraged!
Featured image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay.
