Beautiful Baptism

Our beautiful girl was baptized today. She is our youngest, therefore the last baptism. Since she is the only girl and the last, I went all out with white embellishments. I made her a lovely bracelet (on the doll's wrist), and added lace to a white towel. In her white dress and cardigan, she was breathtaking! I even got her a hand-made dress for her doll, along with a pair of white shoes! What a great reminder for her that she is clean and pure.

A Promising New Year

I have been enjoying a book that my sister-in-law gave me for my birthday last July. It is called "Simple Abundance" by Sarah Bran Breathnach. I want to share a quote from this book about the new year:
"New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. new questions to be asked, emraced and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery...time is the New Year's bountiful blessing; three hundred sixty-five bright mornings and starlit evenings; fifty-two promising weeks; twelve transformative months full of beautiful possibilities; and four splendid seasons."
I hope yours will be a year to be savored.