Merry Christmas from the Parsley's Home to Yours!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! We hope this finds you well and hope your Christmas is filled with the awe of our great Savior, the Creator of the world coming down to us as a helpless babe. Don't ever lose the wonder of that. What an amazing Savior who left all His glory and majesty choosing to put flesh on to live a perfect life later to die taking our sin on a cross so we could be right with God. What He has done has made us perfect in Him if we believe. Oh I hope you do. I hope you live for Him. It is the most important thing.

This year for us has been filled with much adventure. It is the perspective we must have to get through it all. We believe God is in control of all things and it is all in His hands. Christmas last year we were snowed into a cabin in the mountains of Gatlinburg. It was then that we finally realized our youngest had autism. After a hard year of research and figuring things out we found out it is called aspergers. It has been wonderful to finally know how to better teach her by understanding how her brain works. It is a blessing that came in disguise to us this year. She is the most precious thing. Now we understand why things are happening the way they are and we are able to be okay. She is bright, energetic, and has a heart of gold.

Our oldest had her first cast this year. Her bestie had hers at the same time! Wow, what other trouble will they get into?! Just kidding. They were not together when it happened. Kaitlyn's was not a break either it was inflammation of her growth plate and the doc said casting it would be best. She does not want one of those again though! She was a trooper with it. She is doing great in school. We joined a homeschool group this year that meets once a week where they take different classes and both girls love this.

They are both in drama. Kaitlyn is doing art and is very gifted in it. They are both self teaching themselves piano, some guitar. Hannah is doing Ballet and Irish dance. Hannah loves building with legos. Kailtyn loves building on a game they have called Minecraft. They are growing so very fast. Time flies!

As for Tony and I, Tony is doing good at work and still teaching at the university. He is content. He is still involved with Christian Gamers. He is serving a lot this year. He is a deacon, doing media ministry, serving me tons because of my illness. He has had so much thrown at him this year but he takes it in stride. He is a great example for us and leads us well.

I am teaching a Sunday School class of ladies at church and I love it. I am teaching ESL also and love that. I have been working with the Awana group as well. In the coop I get to teach writing to a wonderful group of 5th grade girls. All those things are up my alley. I have had to cut back on so much lately because the Lyme disease has resurfaced this year. I do keep writing at the blog and for various ministries around the blogospere.  It has been a rough go but we are trying hard to get it back down by building my immune system. That is changing our lives radically when it comes to food. But I think overall it is a great thing. Overall we are getting to learn one another better, what makes us tick (ha, a pun cuz that is what made me sick in the first place. :)) and how we work together. God is using it all to purge us of the ugly which there is alot of and make us more like Him. He is so good to us and never let's us go.