How can so much time pass between my posts? I think God has sped up time. Even my 6 year old made a comment about how fast time seems to go by. When I was a child, time crawled by. Anywhooo, December came and went in a flash! We celebrated Christmas and Hanakkah this year and had a great time with both. No, we are not Jewish but we wanted to learn about Hanakkah and all of God's festivals so we are going to learn about them as they come up. It was very fun, educational, and enlightening. When December started, we knew nothing about Hanakkah. Then we started reading and researching and found out all kinds of awesome things! The whole holiday is a celebration of God's deliverance. About the Maccabee's and how God delivered them thousands of years ago after one man, a priest named Mattathias, decided he had had enough of the Greek's telling him to worship their god and to sacrifice a pig on God's alter and eat the meat. He killed the soldiers that came to make them do that then fled for his life. Most of the village followed him and the rest is Maccabee history! We read stories, ate latkes, and played with dreidels. It was a great December!