A Gift

Before Christmas we were given a wonderful gift from a woman at church who has been mentoring me.  She took our kids for an evening so we could go on a date.  Then she took our kids for a morning so I could go to the coffee shop and read a book (or search for a book...in case you read that blog entry).  All during this time that she had our kids she was helping them "craft" a gift for us. The day before Christmas she left a wrapped gift at our door addressed to Dan and me....from "the girls."  And this is what we opened on Christmas morning (see picture below).  It is a family tree and the leaves are the kids' fingerprints.  Each child has a trunk of the tree with their name and birthdate on it.  And Dan and I are at the base of the trunk with our anniversary date on it.  She wrote a beautiful note to us too.  It was a wonderful gift to give and it hangs in our bedroom so we can see it every morning we wake up and every night we go to bed.