Getting Ready

Today was fun. Luci and I started the gift-wrapping, with John's presents. Here she is writing "DAD" on a string of "to-from" stickers. In true pre-schooler fashion, when she ran out of room, she'd make the letters backwards and go the opposite direction.
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You can see the chain behind Luci...we are up to 166 days/links now. The chain goes completely around our dining room. Granted, it's a small dining room, but that chain seems to go on forever!

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The latest we've heard is that late on December 23, we will be hugging John's neck at the airport in Huntsville.
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Just a bit ago I heard on the news that thousands more troops will be heading to Afghanistan next summer. This is the first time in eight years that my heart did not skip a beat at the news of deployment. John's trips are over now. He's retired from the US Army Reserves, so they won't be calling him up any more. He has assured Luci that the only trips he will go on from this point are missionary trips, and those are three weeks long at the longest. We are all happy at that news!

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I am getting ready to send our Christmas cards out. If you would like one, please email me with your name (first and last) and address...cute kids photo to be taken soon and included. willingham.susan@gmail.com