This year has been filled with blessings! Scott’s deployment to Iraq has given us opportunity anew to recognize how very blessed we truly are. Allow us to share a list of this year’s blessings:
Care packages! Thanks to all who have kept Scott supplied with jerkies, granola bars, phones cards, and most of all, your thoughts and prayers!
Hospitality! Grandma and Grandpa and Nana and Papa--whether at our place or theirs, they have gone above and beyond to help us! Countless friends have invited us to spend nights, weekends, even weeks with them to save on travel and to provide companionship.
Rome, Italy. Thanks to my parents (and lots of frequent flier miles!) we traveled with the entire Cerny family to Italy for nearly two weeks last May. Highlights were touring the excavation site under St. Peter’s Basilica, attending an audience with the Holy Father, visiting each of the four basilicas in Rome, and walking in the streets where St. Gianna worked, lived, and prayed.
Incredible colleagues! They have covered classes and writing lab hours at a moment’s notice.
Snow! Admittedly, I’m probably only thankful for a white Christmas because I have not shoveled a flake since Scott left thanks to the generosity of our amazing neighbors for whom I am incredibly grateful!
Thoughts and Prayers! Sunday school groups out east, prayer chains in Iowa, novenas and lit candles in Wisconsin, countless individual prayers. They mean more than anything, and they’re working! Know that you’re all in our prayers, too!
Marriage! My sister wed Ben in October. I was pleased to serve as the matron of honor and Gianna was the adorable flower girl at the beautiful private ceremony in a quaint chapel in central Wisconsin. We are grateful to have Ben as part of the family!
Adorable Gianna--what a blessing! She is growing up so quickly; it seems impossible she will be three this month. She is obsessed with Dora, wants to eat nothing but peanut butter, hot dogs, and the occasional serving of peas, and misses her Daddy. She has even started saying separate “daddy prayers” after our regular night time prayers.
Safety and security! We praise God that Scott and his group have remained safe. More now than ever, we are grateful for the hundreds of thousands of troops and their families who regardless of politics or position have volunteered to do their part to help provide peace on earth.
CHRISTMAS!
The birth of our savior--the greatest blessing of all!
We pray you and your families have a wonderful Christmas and
are blessed in the new year!
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