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Mrs. Phillips and the nurse this time. We love to make cookies for people.

Tatum and I decided on the brown sugar cut outs. They only have 6 ingredients! Brown sugar, butter, egg, salt, vanilla, baking powder and flour. BOOOM!

Rollllllllin it out.

and then we decorated after cooling.

We love you Mrs. Phillips. The nurse also does so much for Tot!

As discussed in previous posts, Tot has been tested and accepted for growth hormone treatment. It’s been a long process, and with much prayer, we have decided to go forward.

Today, a large ice chest showed up at our home. Oh boy, this is the day!
I decided to ring it in with a little ice cream, a card, and a little celebration. We will begin on Sunday night so stay tuned.

We will be starting this Sunday!! And do you know who makes it? LILLY! I worked for Eli Lilly for 10 years after college. What a cool thing!

She will be needing an injection once a day. Every single day for many years.

How tall will you be getting, Sister? (Coopy wants to know)

So how else now do you celebrate? With ice cream of course. Coopy can’t wait!!

C’mon, can I have some??

More?

Daddy has been the most amazing HUBBY. He has made this all possible too with insurance and patience. Thank you baby.

Tot, we love you. We’ll take this one month at a time with the leading of HIM.

I absolutely adore fresh flowers. Just recently, I came upon this new type of flowers. They are called Brassica. Doug calls them my lettuce flowers. They were made for me.

I also am loving hydrangeas and any other fresh flowers they make it warm and inviting. (even amidst the clutter…heh)

As you know, most Sundays we have a Hay Happens meeting. Before this, we made a craft. Now this is no ordinary craft.

I covered some watercolor paper with a painter’s tape cross. Then we watercolored around it. We would unveil a blank cross so we could add in our goals for the year.

We had so much fun making this. Our right brains were in action, and having daddy join us was a real treat! Focused we were!

The unveiling occurred and now we would share in our meeting.

As usual, first we would say our mission, prayer and verse. THEN, sharing.

We will review these once a month to *check* on each other!

Ok, now, what else are we doing? Well, I bought a journal for each of us. We will be recording our gratitudes for the day and how did we contribute, encourage or influence that day. A quick share will occur daily. This way we keep mindful of our interactions and stay focused on what we are grateful for.

Cooper is grateful for his bone.

Finally, we reviewed our year. What a turn of events happened in March. However, we still did so much last year and learned a ton as well.

We even went a few places too! Definitely a difficult year, but we made the best of it, and for that, I’m so grateful.

I love to draw for Tatum, but she also loves to draw for me. Just recently, we went to As You Wish to paint, and I made her a tile for her wall. This is to remind her that I continue to ask Him for HIS blessing upon her. I love you so, Tot.

She surprised me with a little mug of cocoa. I couldn’t be more blessed myself!

My honey worked at the condo to get it ready to rent. We worked at the house. Kind of backwards for a change! But, Tot and I took a little break and celebrated our girlie time.

We took our bikes and ventured out:

Where are we going mommy?

Headed to Luci’s for a little chat. I wanted to write up her song in my Idea book.

A couple of macaroons, coffee, a good chat, warm seats, and togetherness.

Tatum, I love our girl time. Happy New Year, 2021.

We look forward to making our goals with Daddy tomorrow. Stay tuned.

A bike ride, a game or two, drawing, a laugh and a song. This describes our fun during our break before we all return to work. The rest of the time what do you think we did?

Organize our home, ready the condo for renting, sort, toss, and more organizing.

We had to get in some fun, however.

So….

We ventured out in our neighborhood which is glorious; look at where we live now! The lake is right in our backyard. WHO KNEW!?

A little drawing also we enjoyed…. (here’s what I made with our new watercolor markers).

A New Year’s craft. We filled it with pasta as the rattle (we want to move “pasta” 2020!) HA!!

You’ll see these in action on New Year’s Eve!

We played games. Here’s a sample from WordSmart. The letters were J and G and a living creature. Tot chose Jaguar. Or her rendition.

Battleship! She sank all of mine pretty quickly.

And New Year’s EVE celebration.

Are we ready!!??

Shake Rattle and….

Rock and ROLL!

YESSSSS. We are ready for 2021. Coopy is wired and ready to go.