Most Thoughtful Christmas Gift

Since our families live far away, every year we spend Thanksgiving with one family and Christmas with the other. The next year we alternate the holidays. Every other year, when we're with Andy's family we draw names. This year my brother-in-law, David, drew my name. I wanted to share with you the gift that he created, which I consider to be one of the most thoughtful gifts I've ever received.

He wrote the poem, chose the pictures, and put them in a beautiful photo collage which will hang in the nursery. I haven't read it yet without crying. I hope you enjoy it too.

On a side note, with the help of Andy's sister who just had her third baby, I registered at Target & Babies R Us today!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!

On the stage comes a dancer

With her own unique style

Forceful and Confident

Unbridled and Free

She moves in a manner

That seems truly Heaven sent

As the first act concludes

The dance is far from complete

So she’ll dance

She’ll dance

She’ll dance

Her luminous dance

But soon there’s a partner

And the dance becomes different

Colored by passion

And Heartache and Heat

So the dancer exists

In an alternate fashion

Two twirling bodies

With one heart and four feet

And they dance

They dance

They dance

Their glorious dance

Blessed with a child

The roles will be shifted

Performers to Teachers

Their new student they lead

To their Heavenly Father

The young dancer is lifted

And the couple soon learns

They must dance on their knees

So they dance

They dance

They dance

Their rapturous dance