We are still in New England land enjoying ourselves, but I had to share this HILARIOUS elfyourself video our friend Elaina made for us. We died laughing and Abel loved watching himself.
Just click on the link below and enjoy.
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/NeQgY2zaR7F2WB1ioh8W
You’ll hear more from me soon.
Today we said goodbye to our kitty, Allister. He went to live with a super cool guy! We couldn’t have picked a better new owner. Seriously, this man was a God-send. He even emailed me when he got Allister to his house to let me know how he was doing. How sweet is that! I was sad when he left our house, but I know he will be so happy at his new home. I’m more sad for Abel. Abel LOVED Allister (he really loved to torture him too). But I know this was for the best. We have too many family members & friends allergic to him and it was becoming a big problem.
We took a few pictures before he left us. We will miss that folded ear!
Our last few moments with him. (wow, hello crows feet. Where did those come from? I guess 30 is looming…)
Abel being super handsome. He wore a tie to church today!
Every time I hear this song on the radio, I start to cry. It puts the whole Christmas story in such a wonderful perspective. I guess now that I am a mom, I can only imagine what Mary must have felt like that night she birthed her first baby. Not only her firstborn son, but THE KING-HER KING, who was born to save us all.
“Mary, Sweet Mary” by Selah with Plumb
Mary, sweet Mary, your heart overflows
Deep in the night, child, a babe is born.
Sacred and holy, blameless and pure,
Mary, sweet Mary, tonight your child is born.
Mary, sweet Mary, so strong, yet so frail
Carried a baby sent to save the world.
Wise men will seek Him and find in Him
peace.
Mary, sweet Mary, tonight your King is born.
Bridge:
All of the angels danced as heaven sang
All of the earth stood so still and so peacefully.
Mary, sweet Mary, God’s precious child
Blessed redemption is found in His eyes.
All creatures great and small,
He came for all.
Mary, sweet Mary, tonight your Savior’s born . . .
Mary, sweet Mary, tonight our Savior is born . . .
Just had to share what was so special to me lately. Sorry, my blogging days are few at this moment….lots going on in Nickerson land. Don’t leave me, I’ll be back more in 09!
And a picture down memory lane since I am taking about “birth”. The night my baby boy was born.
Thank you Jesus for humbling yourself and coming to this earth as a baby to save me!
I realized I haven’t updated about our recent car accident. Thank you for all your prayers and sweet words. We really appreciate all our loving, caring friends. We are still praising God that He PROTECTED us!
Our Civic is fixable to the tune of $9000….ouch….(obviously, we are not the ones paying for it) we were hoping it would be totaled since we didn’t want to have to deal with an “almost totaled” car again. This happened to us 5 years ago. We had our new Forester for 2 weeks and we were traveling up to Boston and a guy in a RED SPORTS car cuts off a car 6 CARS ahead of us and we were in a 6 cars pile up. Seth and I were driving separate cars b/c we were going to give his old honda civic to his brother. Both cars were destroyed and the old civic didn’t make it and the Forester came within $1000 of being totaled, BUT they fixed it and we have had problems ever since. That is another story. Oh, and that accident happened 2 days before my first Christmas aways from home. Yeah, not too fun.
See why I don’t trust people on the road! Here is what has happened in my life and why I am freaked out by other drivers:
-When I was 17, I was taking a girl I babysat to her friends house. I was sitting at a stop light and a HUGE truck slammed into the back of us.
-Five years ago, a guys cuts us off (story above)
-When I was pregnant, again I was sitting at a stoplight and another TRUCK slammed into me. (remember that drama…had to be rushed to hospital to make sure Abel was ok.)
-And now this. We were just going through a green light and we get slammed into because SOMEONE wasn’t obeying the law.
It takes me years to recover from accidents and poor Seth…I know I can drive him crazy when we are in the car. I think everyone is out to get us and not paying attention, but can you kinda understand why I am like this. I am always in the wrong place at the wrong time and if I am had this much bad luck with BAD DRIVERS…how many bad drivers are out there?
I’m experiencing some back and neck pain and I am dealing with the doctor visits and such right now, but I can’t complain. We are here and I have my boys! Life is too precious!
On a lighter and more happier note….here is my very happy and loving son!
(if you look closely you can see his VERY large swollen gums…he STILL hasn’t got his molars…it has taken over 3 months…come on molars, we are so anxious to see you!)
And this one makes me laugh….trying to squeeze into a little basket.
