Face forward - even if not moving forward

First off, I wish to apologize to every one of my friends on the blogoshpere for being MIA this past month. It has not only been notoriously busy coming to the end of the year at work, but there have been numerous computer repairs and upgrades to be done for my church and others. I've had to squeeze in some "Debbie time" also. Today is the last vacation day I can take for the year (though I haven't vacationed at all) am doing this writing as a "vacationy" sort of thing.

I want to thank Lindsay for being so concerned about me last week to the point of posting on my Facebook wall that Gavin send out his gerbil army to do a search and rescue for me. You shall all be glad to know that they have found me and are pointing their tiny guns at me to hurry up and get some post updates done.

In no particular order, these are recent mailings I have received:

Postcards from Gavin (and Lucy) with imaginative stories and elegant monochrome stamps:





Most excellent drawings from Lucy (with some Freddo chocolate):




A postcard and chocolate from Bianca:



And a whole Christmas kit-'n-caboodle from Lindsay (if you ever wanted to know what a kit-'n-caboodle looks like, now you know)!


Thank you all!!!!!