Happy New Year
dear friends!
Another year passed...
filled with memories...
Thought I'd share a special one
as we come into the new year...
As you know,
Our most precious memory of 2016
will always be the blessed gift that God gave to us...
our beloved grandson, Noah...
A month or so before he was born...
my sweet "daughter" was searching for the perfect cradle
for his first bed...
She found one online that she fell in love with...
and asked her father if he would build it for her...
It reminded us all of a manger...
Such an incredibly talented man...
he built it in his barn just using the picture she found.
he built it in his barn just using the picture she found.
Of course,
once the "manger" was built...
It would need a mattress and bedding
for Noah to sleep on...
And that, my sweet friends,
was Nana's job! (smile)
My "daughter" and I spent a lovely afternoon together
shopping for material...
She picked out a sweet forest print...
It was a bit of a challenge at first...
A standard cradle mattress wouldn't fit...
I finally realized that an extra firm king size pillow
fit just perfectly!
I created a "bag" for the pillow to fit in
which had small bumper rolls attached...
So he wouldn't bump his sweet little noggin!
Not long before this...
my dear sister-in-law had brought me 2 bags
of quilting material...
She was cleaning out her "stash" (smile)...
Some of it coordinated so perfectly with the forest print...
That I just had to make several sheets and a quilt to match!
I had been making some of these little dolls
as part of a "backpack program"...
(a post for another time)
So, of course, our little manger needed one!
As I was working on this project...
And trying to come up with a way to make the bedding
fit just perfectly...
I began to think about how our Lord came to us...
in a manger...
Nothing fancy about it at all.
Yet that "manger" arrival...
provided a way for us to have everlasting life...
and communion for all eternity with our precious Saviour.
We don't have to "guess" how much
He loves us...
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| I guess reading with Nana tuckered him out! |
"As for God, his way is perfect: "
Psalm 18:30
