A year ago today Jenny was just leaving New Zealand after sharing so many wonderful and exciting times together! I hadn't started my blog then so I didn't get to skite about how much that trip meant to me or how much fun we had. It truly was a dream realized! In the beginning days of this month I reminisced at how excited I was a year ago awaiting Jenny, Calicoe, and Dassah's visit to New Zealand.
After our wedding and honeymoon we spent a few weeks in Maryland soaking up time with our Howard family before heading for New Zealand. During this time, Jenny talked of taking a trip to visit. I played along with the wishful idea, hashing out details, thinking it a good way to make New Zealand not seem so far away. I tried to put out of my mind that New Zealand is across an ocean, a couple thousand dollars and a good many hours beyond my loved ones reach. I stepped on the plane with Andrew headed for New Zealand with no expectation or inclination of when I'd see those in my dear family again.
Less than four months later, on Christmas Day, Andrew finished his 12 days of Christmas poem with "And a steel partridge winging Jenny."!!! God even arranged for a little plastic plane to burst forth from the randomly chosen cracker I popped on Christmas morning just before reading the poem. That put a laugh and huge guilty grin on Andrew given his part. Impeccable timing Abba! :) Jenny, Calicoe and Dassah were to arrive on the 3rd of January. It was little short of a miracle that they made it here in one piece with all the ups and down and details of making it happen. They spent a blissful month here and we made so many memories together. Dassah was a trooper at 18 months even camping and boating and watching her mum water ski and fling around on the biscuit.
It means so much to me to be able to share my life in New Zealand with a sister. It's so special that Jenny knows my family here, my friends and the places and sights and sounds that fill my days. Thank you Lord for the gift of sisters and for bringing Jenny to New Zealand last January!
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