Though Daddy and Mommy recently attended a conference in North Carolina where, lacking the crystalline beauty that still decorates our outdoors, they strolled around in T-shirts, the temperature here in Quebec remains well below freezing. This has certainly been a cold winter. But there is a beauty that only reveals itself at -20 degrees or colder. And I have not yet seen a photograph that does it justice. I’m glad I live in Canada!

However, despite last night’s -26C, the climatic conditions are slowly changing enough to hint that winter may not last forever! The days are getting longer and the sun’s shining face draws us outdoors.

Anyone want a picnic?

Winter is here, and with it comes lots of snow.  Having somewhat warmer weather on Sunday, William, Stephen, and some friends decided to have a snowball fight.  As we watched from the window, some of us decided that it was an opportune moment to capture a moving objects mid-flight.

Meanwhile, a couple of girls were cutting out paper snowflakes to decorate the house.  Not one is the same, and though they may be pretty, they do not compare to the ones God made!

I recently learned that we are going to have a talking tree this Christmas.  I really like the idea.  No, this is not some kind of electronic device, it is just a Christmas tree.  Not some kind of plastic fake, nor one of those legendary aluminium Christmas trees.  I know I have heard tell that talking trees are not quite what most people have in their living rooms at Christmas, but why would anyone want to be average?  Besides, this is a normal-looking tree. 

Sort of.  

This is one of those old-fashioned wooden Christmas trees, but not the kind that has been trained in big tree schools, where they all learn to grow big, fluffy branches and sit quietly in someone’s living room once they have been sold.  No!  This is a tree that will be picked from our own forest where there is some competition, and where atheistic ideas are not taught.  I realise that even we didn’t have a talking tree last year, but this year we are going to have a real live talking tree right in our own living room, and it’s going to be a biblically-minded, doctrinally-sound, non-denominational tree, and it is going to be ten feet tall!

How about you?  Wouldn’t you like to have a real, live, ten-foot-tall, biblical-theology-teaching, non-denominational, sound-minded, quick-witted, non-evolutionary, highly-competitive, naturally-green-and-growing, old-fashioned, extra-ordinary, non-electronic, plastic-and-aluminum-free, genuine, no-nonsense, talking Christmas tree in your living room this year too?  Maybe you don’t know what you are missing out on.