The Emond Family Gazette
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas from our family to yours! We had a beautiful church service Christmas morning. I love being able to celebrate the birth of our Saviour in church. I had cooked most of Sunday’s lunch the day before, and I put a ham to slow cook in the oven while we were at church. So…
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Crazy Winter Weather and Christmas Eve
As I’m sure a lot of you delt with the same thing, we had some crazy weather move in Christmas weekend. Single digits, below zero and awful winds. With the windchill being well below zero, we stayed home as much as we could. So while the wind was howling and the snow was falling, we…
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More December Festivities
Charlestown Christmas Lights.
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Christmas Festivities Part Two
Last week the kids went to a Christmas party at a friends house. They really enjoyed themselves. The same day, Trevor had his work Christmas Lunch, so I got to accompany him to that. There was some amazing food. Sooooo good. I wish I could’ve brought some home. There was a photo booth there so…
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Let the Christmas Festivities Begin…
To start off our Christmas Festivities for the month of December, we went to IUS to watch the Christmas Pops Concert. Zion got to play cello in the orchastra. So fun. For anyone who follows me on Instagram, some of the videos are posted there. Still can’t figure out how to get videos onto the…
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November
We never seem to slow down. We are always busy doing something. But life is good and the Lord has blessed us, so I’m not complaining. Here’s how November went… Outside our our normal, every day stuff…. I finally got a dishwasher. I’d been saving up for one for a couple of years, and Home…
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September and October Updates
The week after Trevor and I got back from Italy, the kids and us were part of a wedding of two young people from our church. Azariah was a groomsman, Zion played piano and he and Glorianna sang. Trevor was the MC at the reception and I help with set up and decorations and such.…
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Italy Part Six
Friday, September 23. Once again we enjoyed our slow pace in the morning, reading our Bibles together, drinking our coffee and eating our cereal for breakfast. The airb&b did not have any bowls, though, so we had to get creative. But it worked! Since this was our last day in Italy and we had the…
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Italy Part Five
Thursday, September 22 – We decided to skip breakfast this morning. We’ve grown tired of croissants. So I just had a granola bar and some coffee and we set out for a little more site seeing before we needed to get ready for the wedding. There was an old castle type overlook not far from…
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Italy Part Four
Wednesday, September 21 – Our airb&b in Verona had a coffee maker in it. (Happy Dance) We could get up and drink our coffee at our own pace, read our Bibles together and take our time leaving for breakfast. Ahhhh…much better. There was something so satisfying about brewing my own cup of coffee. We still…