We had a great afternoon and night out on the last day of the year going to our first escape room, eating dinner at Chick-fil-A, and seeing Star Wars. 2019 was a really wonderful year for us. I used the One Second Everyday app most days of the year, and it was so fun to put all the months together this morning and watch our year go by in little blips of extraordinary and ordinary moments.
We had snow days in January.
In February, I attended a Thrive Retreat in Italy for women working overseas with friends.
In March we visited Normandy and Brittany, and I photographed a wedding in the Netherlands.
There were cherry blossoms in April as well as a visit from my parents.
I had an amazing Mother's Day outing in May and hosted our literary society on V-E Day at our house.
In June we had cherries and a fox that visited several times to eat the ones that fell to the ground.
The kids had so much fun with cousins in July, and we spent our first 4th of July in the U.S. in five years. We watched the jets fly over Paris on Bastille Day, K.J. biked through Switzerland, and we all survived a record-breaking heatwave.
August brought new friends to Paris to serve alongside us at EIC Ternes. The kids started back to school, and we enjoyed the quieter days of summer in Paris. We ate a lot of dinners in the garden with Noreen.
In September our firstborn became a teenager, and we took a family vacation across the channel when all the rates went down, a big advantage to homeschooling. I got the flu, and we started a regular Sunday School for the kids at church.
October began with celebrating a decade of James, and we attended the International Baptist Convention in Naples, which we were able to combine with visiting fellow church-planters in Rome. We made it back in time to enjoy beautiful autumn colors around Paris.
November was often gray, but there were beautifully-colored leaves, Remembrance Day celebrations that took us to the British Embassy, and Thanksgiving meals with church family and friends.
And of course December has been a month for time with family and celebrating the birth of Christ. A friend asked me last night what the highlights of time in Alabama have been, and the answers were surprisingly simple: family, Target, Chick-fil-A, speaking English.
I love looking back, but I'm also excited about the year ahead.
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