Holiday Thoughts
The Boykins enjoyed a pretty good Christmas and New Year's celebration. Here are some of the highlights!
Dane was home for the holidays. It's good seeing how the Lord is working in his life. He and I had some good times looking into the Scripture together - went thru the first couple of chapters of Philippians.
We all called Addison on his Christmas Day - it was actually Christmas Eve afternoon here! He seems to be doing well. He'll be traveling a good bit over the next month or so. That should be much fun for him. I remain thrilled that he is having this opportunity.
Anita's parents and sister came here for Christmas. It's always good to see them. MeMa (Anita's mom) is continuing to get worse with her dementia. It's very sad - but God remains good to give us time with them.
The Christmas Eve service is absolutely one of my favorite times of the year. I'd probably boycott Christmas if I didn't have that opportunity to worship!
Christmas day we all traveled up to Statesboro, N.C. to visit with Anita's cousin and her husband - Susan and Meredith. They live in a Civil War era home that they have restored and furnished with tons of antiques. A beautiful place ... but somewhat uncomfortable for a family traveling with 6 boys! While there we went to one of their friends home for a yearly "day after Christmas" party. It was at a cattle farmer's home - big and nice. The party was at night, outside, and there were probably 150 + people there. Plenty of food - lots of oysters - raw, fried, steamed, stew; also had plenty of other food for the wimpy non-oyster eaters.
eating some good oyster stew!
While in N.C. we watched Florida State's bowl game vs. UCLA. To be honest I was dreading it - FSU had a horrible year and I expected to get whupped by the team that had just beaten USC. But a whole different team showed up for the bowl game. FSU handled UCLA rather easily and came out with a big win. So once again we'll go thru the summer with some optimism ... particularly since we're getting a new offensive coordinator!
Cobi and I left N.C. with Cindy (Anita's sister) to go down to St. Simons to drive back in the car she gave us - a 1999 Chevy Cavalier convertible!
Anita, Dane, and I went to see "Pursuit of Happyness" - the new Will Smith movie. I really liked it ... it made me cry! If you ever think you have it bad and need to give up, go see this movie.
Today we had the traditional meal (one of my favorites) - turnip greens, black eyed peas, onion, tomato, cornbread, country ham (no hog jowls). Earlier I spoke with Potts, my friend in Minnesota. He said he was jealous about our meal ... they typically don't get such good food like that up there!
It was a good break - many reminders of God's faithfulness, goodness, blessings, and love.
getting ready to go back to work,
Burt
Dane was home for the holidays. It's good seeing how the Lord is working in his life. He and I had some good times looking into the Scripture together - went thru the first couple of chapters of Philippians.
We all called Addison on his Christmas Day - it was actually Christmas Eve afternoon here! He seems to be doing well. He'll be traveling a good bit over the next month or so. That should be much fun for him. I remain thrilled that he is having this opportunity.
Anita's parents and sister came here for Christmas. It's always good to see them. MeMa (Anita's mom) is continuing to get worse with her dementia. It's very sad - but God remains good to give us time with them.
The Christmas Eve service is absolutely one of my favorite times of the year. I'd probably boycott Christmas if I didn't have that opportunity to worship!
Christmas day we all traveled up to Statesboro, N.C. to visit with Anita's cousin and her husband - Susan and Meredith. They live in a Civil War era home that they have restored and furnished with tons of antiques. A beautiful place ... but somewhat uncomfortable for a family traveling with 6 boys! While there we went to one of their friends home for a yearly "day after Christmas" party. It was at a cattle farmer's home - big and nice. The party was at night, outside, and there were probably 150 + people there. Plenty of food - lots of oysters - raw, fried, steamed, stew; also had plenty of other food for the wimpy non-oyster eaters.
eating some good oyster stew!
While in N.C. we watched Florida State's bowl game vs. UCLA. To be honest I was dreading it - FSU had a horrible year and I expected to get whupped by the team that had just beaten USC. But a whole different team showed up for the bowl game. FSU handled UCLA rather easily and came out with a big win. So once again we'll go thru the summer with some optimism ... particularly since we're getting a new offensive coordinator!
Cobi and I left N.C. with Cindy (Anita's sister) to go down to St. Simons to drive back in the car she gave us - a 1999 Chevy Cavalier convertible!
Anita, Dane, and I went to see "Pursuit of Happyness" - the new Will Smith movie. I really liked it ... it made me cry! If you ever think you have it bad and need to give up, go see this movie.
Today we had the traditional meal (one of my favorites) - turnip greens, black eyed peas, onion, tomato, cornbread, country ham (no hog jowls). Earlier I spoke with Potts, my friend in Minnesota. He said he was jealous about our meal ... they typically don't get such good food like that up there!
It was a good break - many reminders of God's faithfulness, goodness, blessings, and love.
getting ready to go back to work,
Burt
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