Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Hello Everyone,
I pray that this email finds you well! It's time once again for my yearly update. So here goes...

Lets see the year began in Dallas this year ( I seem to start all my years in TX for some reason! LOL!) I went to the CCC Dallas Winter Conference in January. I was there for a week. I stayed in a beautiful hotel. It was one of the hardest weeks of my life. I was stretched to the very brink, I was lonely and I felt beaten. In some ways it was one of the worst weeks of my life but in other ways it was one of the best. I learned and grew and became better and closer to God.

I spent the next few months helping out around the house. I did the shopping, helped with cooking and helped drive my brothers around. I spent those months working on who I will be later in life, a mother. I took drawing and learned a lot. I was going to take interior design in Feb. but the class was canceled. So I just worked harder on getting MRS (LOL).

May, I got a job at a clothing store, Christopher and Banks in Sooner mall, where I still work. You should come by and see me! I love getting visitors! It was also in May that my friend, Dotty and I started a writer's group called Writer's Block. I love it and can not wait for it to get going again after our Christmas break.

June and July, were hard months. I was dealing with the new job and my new co-workers. Then my dear friend's father passed away after a long battle with cancer. I was heartbroken for my friend and I felt helpless to even be there for her because she was living in Road Island at the time.

August.. Is a blank...

September, Classes started again. I took sign language, drawing and writing at Moore-Norman. I enjoyed everything pretty well. It was in September that I found out my other friend's Mother had breast cancer. My "sometimes" mommy, as I like to call her, had to have surgery and she has been going through chemo but thank the Lord, so far all the cancer is gone and she is almost done with the chemo. Then we had a scare with my dad. He had a pain in his side for over a year and when he went to get it checked out they found a spot on his lung. We were trying not to worry until it was tested. Thank the Lord about 3 weeks later we found out it was not cancer, instead it was phenomena.

October, I had strep (EEWW) and we went to Galveston, TX.... It was probably the best trip I have ever had! It was really good for my family to be together after that summer! LOL!

November, I went to a writing conference and probably learned more in those 2 days then I did the whole semester at Moore-Norman. It was really a great time.

December, what can I say..... It has been crazy! My sister and her family stayed with us for about a week and a half then my sister had a baby boy, on the 18th (Jesse Wade Eastin). My mom left with them to help with the baby. I've been working like crazy ( don't work at the mall around Christmas) and trying to keep up with the house. We had Christmas eve at my grandma's house ( it was great!) and we went straight from there to my other grandma's lake house at Texoma. We spent the night there and had Christmas dinner. We still haven't had our own Christmas, we are waiting for my mom to get home. So our Christmas will be on January 13th.

As for next year... Well I'm not sure.. I know I'll be working at the funeral home that my grandparents own. I'll be working there at night to answer the phone and greet people. I'll be going on a few trips to visit my other grandparents and my aunt and uncle. Then the plan is to stay with my sister for a few months this summer.
I plan on diving into writing and see how I can do on my own (after decidint that the class i was taking isn't for me. And I plan on going to a Christian writing conference in February.

This was some year... Filled with the bad and the good. The truth is it was a perfect year. Everything that happened was in God's hands. If we could only remember that then we could find the peace the bible talks about.
"It is well with my soul".....

Hope you have had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I hope you are blessed and that you can see the perfection God brings to each day. You are loved! By me and God!

Love,
Rebekah