“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” (James 1:27, ESV)
We had a good Christmas Day. We started with the usual morning routine of coffee, breakfast and showers and then started our Christmas with a devotional time to celebrate the birth of Christ. We used a book from Ligonier Ministries to guide our devotional time. We started with prayer, continued with worship songs, birth of Jesus bible story for Matthew, more scripture readings and worship. Afterwards, the rest of family gathered to have lunch and open presents. I don’t have time to go over every present, but let’s just say that everyone was very happy. I hope you enjoy some of the photos in the gallery. Click here to see all the photos on SmugMug
Matthew has been watching me make coffee very carefully and learning a bit more about coffee making than I thought.
Without me telling him a thing, he knows to get the portafilter, put it under the coffee hopper and pull the trigger for the grounds to drop into the portafilter. Press the grounds down with a tamper and put the portafilter back up to the espresso machine. Pull the level for water to go through the coffee. He knows that the steam wand is for the milk pitcher. Of course, he does all this with the power to the machines off, but someday he’ll be making us coffee in the morning! And I wouldn’t be surprised if his first job is at Starbucks. See all the photos in the Lombardi Spot galleries
For some reason she was a little sick and had watery eyes for a couple days. She seemed a little sad too. It was breaking our heart to see her in this way. Thankfully, it quickly passed.
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