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"It's going to be DIFFERENT this year!"

It's something I often muttered or even shouted to myself every year.  I want the focus of the holidays to be Christ-centered, not gift-centered.  But the days and weeks leading up to December 25th all pretty much looked the same.

Rushing through stores crowded with holiday shoppers filling their carts with toys their kids don't really want and REALLY don't need.  (I know kids don't need much because we have 3 children – 8, 6 and 3 yrs old – and ALL of their toys combined fit into a 20" suitcase.)  I scramble to try to get some Christmas cards sent out, but end up just doing some at the last minute.

If you're not following along with my craziness on Facebook, you may not know that our family has a HUGE announcement.  Not "huge" like a new baby is a huge announcement, but a pretty big one.

Our family of 7 has undertaken what most people would consider an impossible notion.  Many likely think we're out of our minds.  Some would love to do the same, but think they can't.

So what is it?

We have realized a long time dream and have moved to another country…Costa Rica!

Betcha weren't ready for that, were ya?

Some of you know that our family was an Air Force family for 10 years.  During that time, I think I counted that we’d moved/lived in 14 different homes.  Some homes were in the same towns, but I’m counting a move as any time I had to put our stuff in boxes and haul it somewhere else to be unpacked. :o)

Well, this week, I decided it was high time to go through some of the “mystery” boxes that seem to have traveled with us everywhere and, yet, remained virtually untouched.

This is not our home, but a photo I found on Wikipedia.

There are times when my mind is overflowing with ideas of what to write on my blog.  And there are other times when I wait on the Lord to write because I know it’s not light reading.

This article is something that has actually been slowly developing, stewing, simmering for a few weeks now.  I pray that you receive it in the way I intended for it to be received…