Teacher Gifts

Today I worked on some really super easy and inexpensive teacher gifts. I got the idea from a craft website. Thought I'd post this just in case anyone needed an idea for a Christmas gift. It's a Post-It note holder...love it!
Items needed: 4x6 clear frame stand...
scrapbook paper...ribbon...tags...Pot-It's.
Update: here's the finished product wrapped with sweet little herb wreaths...hope the kids teachers enjoy these useful gifts.

Homecoming

Sunday night, Garrett came back home to live! Yeah! Homecoming is just that...coming home. As you know, Garrett left on June 12 of this year and has had many an adventure. He started off in Germany. While there, he got to spend two weeks in Austria, yeah I felt sorry for him at this point as well :). During his two-week stay in Austria he traveled into Italy for a day. After his two month stay in Germany it was time to come back to the States. Well he got home on Aug. 17th and was home for only one day :/...yeah a whole day but we had the opportunity to drive him out to Arizona and spent three days together out there. So he's been in Arizona ever since, with a few weekend trips back home here and there.

I've been encouraged by his venture of faith these past six months. Going to places he's never been and meeting people he's never met. To live his first night away from home on his own. Yeah didn't know about that one before he left ;), good thing! But most of all to just go out with an absolute sold out joy to serve the Lord. We went from not knowing what God had for him after graduation and in one day the Lord had laid out the next 6 months of his life.

So he's home and it will be exciting to see what God has for him next.

God has been so good to us through this process of releasing our child to Him. He has better plans for our children then we do. We pray for the willingness to surrender to the Lord all of our children, seeing that they're His anyways. And to think Christian graduates this year and we're doing this all over again:).

One of my favorite things Garrett brought back from Germany (besides all my cute bird trinkets and German chocolate) was this beautiful worship song sung in the beautiful German language. It's just a snippet but hope you enjoy it.