the amazing month of FEBRUARY is over / / wrapping it up

Polaroid fails ^^

February higlights:

-Stacks of books from the library

-Praying + planning a trip to Uganda...Lord willing!

-Getting chocolates from Dad <3

-Visiting nursing homes

-Kinsley having the puppies (15!!)

-ahmazing candles

-Rylans + Lilliana's birthday
-coffee. enough said. 

-writing letters to tons of people
-BEING SURPRISED BY MY BESTIE!!!!! <33
-also the epic 14th (+ 43rd) bday party my Mom threw <33

-getting a lot of crocheting done

-AWESOME coffee dates with Ash, then thrift shopping and skating after <333

-beautiful sunsets

-warm days // doing school outside and playing for hours

-finally getting rooms a lot cleaner
-really thankful for my best friend who I can just...talk to. 

Moments:

Lilli: *3 days after turning 4* " i'm gonna have brownies for my number five birthday, and moreee dolllsss. "

Me: oohh only 7 days til I'll be 14!!

Levi + Josh: *blank faces* "... seriously...???"

now whenever we ask Micah anything, he always without fail replies: "Yeah!" -- it gets pretty hilarious xD

Me: You need to get uppp!!!

Lilli: But I'm just so tired.

Me: Ok, you can sleep for 5 more minuets

Her: Well at least do 10! 

When you somehow manage to shut your hair in the car door...

Unfortunate: 

A completely awful case of teething for poor Micah. (fever, throwing up (sensitive gag reflex), and all the sad things that come with it. 

Having to wait until March 5th to open presents and 'celebrate'. I actually don't feel like I'm 14..yet. It's so weird XDD

Dad being really busy. I guess it's good in a way tho. 

Digging. lots and lots of digging until I get blisters. And lifting heavy stuff = pulling a muscle. :|

all the mud. equals flooding. no actually flooding equals mud. yeah. 

Things I learned:

Well, I started learning Luganda, and some Dutch just for fun. (50% fluent in French jsyk :D)

I learned... a lot. I just can't put it in words on this blog..if you know what I mean. 

I learned about a lot of..history. I don't even know why, but we learned a lot of history this month. :'D

Sibling relationships, and how important they are. 
That actual friends are hard to find. I already new that-- but it just seemed more apparent this month. 

A LOT MORE HAPPENED. It's just being hard to put into words. But there ya are. My month at a glimpse. ;D

Fave thing you did this month?

Why my family doesn't celebrate christmas {THE THING ABOUT HOLIDAYS.}

:P

{first off, sorry about the photo dump again. But this blog is just the place where I can put all of it..so..sorry. :P}

WHY WE DON'T CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS..

It's pretty simple, if you research it. Honestly, if you research any holiday, you'll probably wonder why you actually celebrate it. (besides Thanksgiving) Basically all holidays except for Thanksgiving are just plain weird...look at the history!

Christmas- It's a pagan holiday. The catholics basically started it and then later on Christians turned it into something like "Oh let's say that today was the day Jesus was born and give everyone presents and put a tree in our house!" (it actually says in Jeremiah that we shouldn't bring trees into our house) So many people don't actually celebrate Jesus' birth on that day at all, even tho some might. Honestly guys, we should celebrate His birth every day!! 

Valentines- This also has weird history, but supposedly there were these two guys named Valentine who were martyred two years apart on the same day- Feb 14th. And these other people wanted to still celebrate their tradition on the 15th, so they like compromised or something and turned it into the day called Valentines day. If you're wondering what we did for Valentines, we took a whole bunch of cute cards and some candy to 2 local nursing homes and handed them out. It was really fun seeing their faces light up. <3 And at the end of the day- Dad unexpectedly gave me a bag of chocolates which was super sweet. So we do kinda celebrate it because it's a good opportunity to do something like going to a nursing home to hand out cards. Ya know? What do you do for Valentines??

Easter- Okay y'all, the history on Easter is absolutely ABSURD. It's super weird. The bunnies and the eggs actually represent 'fertility gods' supposedly..and what they did way back in the old days is just crazy. You should probably just go look it up and see for yourself. ;) Last year we didn't do an egg hunt, but we might this year just for the fun of it. 

Thanksgiving- THANKSGIVING IS THE BEST. In my opinion. But honestly, my family is grateful for every single day that we get to be living testimonies of Jesus' power. 

New years- Ok so this holiday is basically our 'Christmas'. Not meaning that we bring a tree into our house and adorn it with weird balls, but that we all give presents the very first day of the new year. And of course we bring it in Dec 31st with fake champagne and lots of laughter.

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Honestly, I had a hard time last December, seeing so many people with cute family traditions and such. (But then again, Dec was just a kinda hard month for me) But the Lord has been showing me more about how I need to be happy where I am, in whatever season I'm in. 

What do you celebrate? 
How do you celebrate??

happy.

{happy days are my absolute favorite.}