Roth Christmas Epistle 2022

 

Our weekly Thursday night visits with Anawynn (as Dustin and Kelly Jo do their dance class thing) have changed from Grandma and Grandpa reading to her at bedtime to the three of us sharing those reading duties. She is nine, after all, and becoming a beautiful young lady full of creativity and humor.

How is it possible that Ivy June is almost three??!? And baby sister Ezra Ann (1) is walking and handling stairs like a master, while her face lights up every time she sees us...heart-melting. Curtis and Abbey purchased their first home this year and Curtis became the full-time Children's Pastor at Valley...the church where HE was once a child and his daddy once was the youth minister!

Johnathan, Shonda, and Maverick (6) hosted us for a wonderful weekend at their home in Arkansas. We had a great time meeting their two white labradoodles, Calvin and Hobbes.

Phil is enjoying his work as an electrician,  Angel continues to help pump up the reading skills of her elementary-aged flock, Jesse (11) played both soccer and baseball (impressing both his coaches), and Thomas (8) seems to be on the verge of mastering some snowboarding skills and putting one on his Christmas wish list.

Debbie continued to add more in-person events to her resume with Rest in Him Ministry, and started working on a second book. She was honored to participate in Valley Christian Church's Advent sermon series this year. It was based on the women who appear in Jesus' genealogy, and Debbie's message was about Ruth. We both absolutely love the upstairs remodel (pictured below) that was accomplished thanks to an inheritance from Dewey's mom. And oh yeah...with the employment news in the following paragraph, Debbie was able to retire after 24.5 years as a para-professional with ISD 196!

Dewey went straight from his short-term contract with Securian Financial ending on April 1 to starting a full-time position with a company called EQ, with an enjoyable two weeks off in between...as Goldilocks would say, it was juuuuust right!  His creative outlets are still fired up, including some additional Santa gigs this year. Get caught up on all the info about blogs and podcasts and Facebook humor pages by going HERE. And oh yeah...on August 2nd, he finished his 65th trip around the sun.

Take some time to rest in the knowledge that you are loved, not only by us but by the One who knows you best of all. Heaven came to Earth in a small package, but it had big results.  Have a blessed new year!