A Blessed Christmas
I am grateful for you, dear WordPress friends.
I pray your day was blessed indeed.
Merry Christmas!

Did you get to actually be with your family? Or did you ZOOM with them as we did? The picture above is Christmas Eve morning. Bob & I had the opportunity to see and talk with (left to right) our son, Ty, [then that’s us], group shot of our grandson and granddaughter with our son’s in-laws, then my niece, Jodie & her husband, Bill and son, Liam, from their home in PA, our daughter #2 Laina in the Baltimore area, and our daughter-in-law, Monika, in CA. We had a wonderful hour-long conversation. Next best thing to being together in person! Thank you, ZOOM!!

thanking us for the slippers we sent to him and his adorable girlfriend.

You know how angels are an important part of my life.
How sweet and thoughtful of her!
What are the gifts that brightened your day today?
I hope you are feeling as blessed as we are.

brightened our Christmas. So nice to see her
with her hubby, two of her 3 boys, plus her mother-in-love.

We are decanting it to enjoy it with our special dinner…
a standing rib roast. Wish you could share it with us!

Technology continues to amaze us… the advances are amazing!
Bob & I are using our relatively new smoker to smoke a standing rib roast for our Christmas dinner. Like technology, things like smokers and cell phones require a learning curve. We’re on the uphill side of that curve!
We called our neighbor/friend, Whooter, for help this morning when we were trying to figure out how to do this. Dear Whooter texted us back, sent us a photo that made our day, and gave us the advice we needed. Love that guy!!
Whooter gave us a great recipe for a rub to put on the meat, and meat thermometers to help us know we are headed in the right direction in the smoking process. God bless him! Do you have neighbors who are life-savers for you at times like this?

It’s a gorgeous knife that will be the greatest tool for carving this roast
if it ever smokes sufficiently for us to eventually eat it!
As we prepare for our Christmas dinner, we are listening to the horrible news about the bombing in Nashville this morning. So sad that there are such sick people out there! How could someone intentionally do something so devastating?
Our prayers go out for those who were injured and prayers of gratitude that there are no known fatalities. We have friends who live in Nashville- not far from this blast. And I have a cousin who lives there. My heart goes out to all those in Harm’s Way. We all are affected by such atrocities. It makes us all feel vulnerable. It saddens my heart.
God be with those firefighters who were injured.
May they recover fully and be home with their families soon.

What’s a favorite gift that you have been given?
Thank God for each minute you are given to share
the love, joy, and peace that are Jesus Christ’s gifts to us.
Have a very Merry Christmas, my friends.
Our standing rib roast WILL be done soon.
I am counting on it.
Sigh…
The smoker keeps shutting off.
We may have to call Whooter again!
(That’s just an internet photo!!)
Merry Christmas, my friends.
What did you do today?
Hugs from JanBeek, Bob & TazE!
Written
on May 27, 2020