New is the year...

New is the year!

And we have celebrated the season-

With the company of beautiful family, who are our very best friends!

We wore silly masks and sat outside Green House Cottage under a blue moon.

Danced, and sang, ate, chatted and played-

Last year, I wrote a poem to my love, we sat quietly and pondered what the new year might bring. It delivered much joy, and growth between us... I think we love more each passing year.

Jamie's parents celebrate their own wedding anniversary on the eve of each new year, and we all talked about our own weddings, over scrumptious homemade delights - what we loved and remembered...

Happiness is all these things. The balance of serious thoughts, spiritual strength, undying love - in everything - and even when you don't feel like it - happiness with loved ones is on the other side of all this - when you can be silly, and dance, and sing, and play, in a freedom, which I have learned is born only through obedience in Him.

New is the year, high are my hopes, deep is my love, and love never fails.

Love to you, and yours at the dawn of such a season!

Shell xx

Oh, tree of lights...

Oh tree of lights,

remind me as I decorate-

each star, and each shiny ball,

of the years before I put you there.

And hardly can it be believed-

that a year has passed us by in between?

But it has not passed us by,

We have given thanks for it everyday.

And so it's time to celebrate our Lord's birth,

{and this year, also the newlyweds baby's birth}

And give thanks in a bigger way!

With our tree of lights,

each star and each shiny ball,

A symbol of love, for you.

Shell xx