Eunice Louisiana, Boomtown

Population: 12,000
Large Fireworks Tents: 6
New Year's Eve: Sleepless

Home For The Holidays

As our family traveled to New Orleans to meet up with family for Christmas Day, I looked up in the sky and saw tons of white lines streaking through the atmosphere. Often you can see one or two white streaks from airplanes in the sky, but at 10 AM on Christmas morning the sky was FULL of airplanes with people busy going, going, going.

It sort of caught my breath as I thought of all the people on all those planes with somewhere to go. Someone to meet. Someone to hug. Someone to give gifts to. Someone to sit down at the table with and eat a special meal with. Someone to visit.

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and were in just the spot you wanted to be for Christmas Day!

The Church Family

Last night I had the privilege to sit in the congregation while our church choir performed the annual Christmas music program. I enjoyed the music. I enjoyed the Christmas sounds. I enjoyed seeing the children particpate and be adorable. I enjoyed seeing my son sing in the choir (and be so grown up).

BUT, mostly I just looked at a group of people that are dear to my heart. God continues to knit our lives together in this place, and that is so good. I prayed for each person on the stage last night. I thanked God for the blessing of knowing them all....my church family....a gift from God.

(I apologize for the quality of the pictures. It's hard to take a decent shot with dim lighting and spot lights in the middle of the performance.)

Sneaux Again!

Last year on December 1st I posted a blog about our Lousiana snow. Who could have guessed that I'd be able to post pictures of this year's Louisiana snow!?!

Sure enough, on Friday evening about 6 PM it started to snow here. The snowing lasted until about 10 PM, and the night stayed cold enough that there was snow covering the ground and roofs when we got up Saturday morning. On our way to church this morning there were still patches of snow to be seen on roofs and in shady, cool corners of yards!

This might be my favorite picture from the snow. It's our neighbor's house early in the morning as the sun was coming up. It is a rare sight to see the smoke coming from the chimney while the roof, trees, and yard are covered with a white blanket of snow.

Thanksgiving Update

The holiday season has begun! The blog posts will be slow coming as we head through the month of December and into the New Year, but check back when you can. You never know when a post will be up!

Before we get too far into December, I wanted to post our Thanksgiving pictures. You may be thinking you'll see a big turkey, a gravy boat, and the canned shaped cranberry sauce...well, not this year! On Thanksgiving Thursday we (my parents joined us) loaded up in the van and headed out on an adventure to visit places in Louisiana we haven't seen before. We ended up in Pecan Island, where we found a spot on the side of the road to pull over and eat our turkey sandwiches.




I hope your Thanksgiving was an enjoyable as ours!