Camilia came to visit yesterday with her three children: Hannah, Hudson and Ava. What a wild time. They are so beautiful, bright and curious. Hannah, who is allergic to anything related to nuts, picked up a walnut shell that had been discarded by a squirrel in the back yard. Then she rubbed her eye, and by the time they left, it was beginning to swell shut. She took it all in stride and it didn't stop her from climbing up in my lap and saying, "I love you". Thankfully, there's Children's Benadryl.
It seems like only yesterday that we offered a room, and what turned out to be our hearts, to a waif of a girl needing a place to stay to be close to her fiance while he was at ESU. She was the first of quite a few beautiful long haired girls who have shared our home. We have been so blessed by their presence and the relationships that have continued since. When she left yesterday, Camilia took the Christmas tree that we decorated together some nine years ago. She wanted it more for the memories than it's value as a Christmas tree which has dropped with every passing year....unlike our memories which continue to be made.
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