So I posted in December, now I'm posting for January. I want to share about what a great visit we had to the Broomfield Rehab Center yesterday - we go to visit the residents in the alzheimers/dimentia unit once/month, and yesterday we made Valentines (albeit a little early, but now they can decorate their rooms). Soren is such a sweet kid, all the seniors there LOVE to touch his hair, and hear him talk to them in his darling voice. He made valentines for like 8 of them, and put smiles on their faces. He actually gets excited to go! Not quite sure if that's because he actually likes to visit them OR because we hardly ever do craft projects at home...creativity is not my strength! Then when we got home, I got an email from one of the other moms who went thanking me for organizing our visit, and telling me her heart was full of joy yesterday afterward. Lord, it's times like these that I love following you, and I thank you for blessing me with the opportunity to share these seniors with my children and vice versa! 
The other fun thing we've been doing with the kiddos is going to community food share as a small group to help sort food monthly (see, it all happens monthly....is monthly enough Lord?) The older kids help sort, and the younger kids hang out while we mommies and daddies help the food bank sort the good from the the bad, and into food groups. It's an easy way to bond as a small group and build relationships while serving those in need and set an example of helping others for our kids. I so worry about them growing up in an affluent "bubble", and don't want them to turn out spoiled or thinking they're entitled to all they have. One final note: Anders started walking the week before he turned 1, at my mom's house in MN. Go little monkey!!
