Why I am getting facebook

I have used this blog and our "year end" videos for the last few years to diary my life and hopefully give our kids some kind of record of their childhood. It's been good... and I think I'll keep them up.... HOWEVER... next week (as my reward for finishing our 2010 video) I am going to start a facebook account - because I want to know about other people's lives. The lives of all of you - of course - but I haven't wanted to get facebook because I prefer you call and email!! But there are people - people who I have grown to love very deeply this past month who will never call or email. So I will get a facebook account.

Also - my email is getting full of strange foreign characters I cannot read and it would be handy to have a photo. :)
Also - since 1 in 10 people on the planet now has an account - including my mother - I should probably just jump on the wagon.

And finally - if my children look unbathed, my house is a disaster, and we eat frozen pizza throughout January - don't worry - I have been told it is a phase... I will learn to let comments and photos go by without commenting on each one. But if March comes and I am not prepping a garden - please do an intervention.

These are some of the faces of people I don't want to lose track of in the coming months. We had an awesome time at Bear trap where we spent Christmas with 60 international students and Americans who love them. We hiked (Jude over 2 miles a day), played games, threw snow balls, made Christmas cards and cookies, and learned about Jesus - the bringer of True Christmas - God for us, God with us, and God in us. It was beautiful - scenery and soul.










Yes - I have photos of family Christmas's too - but I need to start the year end video - so look for them there. And don't look for a blog for a few weeks!