Happy New Blog...



...and a Happy First Post!!!
We are HOMEbodies away from our Texas HOME, settling into our new Russia HOME,
serving to help strengthen other HOMES as we all prepare for our Heavenly HOME.
So... Welcome to our kinda/sorta private, crazy, yet happy life!
You are friends!
 
 
 
 
(We squint when the sun is shining DIRECTLY in our eyes, weird, I know!)
(BTW, I love exclamation marks and use them a lot, get used to it!) (And parentheses too!)
(It is not easy writing a first blog post while eating belVita and Nutella, delicious, but not
easy! [especially with extra Nutella!])
 

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