2004 Summary

Dear Friends and Family,
I have taken it upon myself to write this the ‘Walker After Christmas letter’. Mommy was just asking me how one goes about writing an interesting Christmas letter, and I replied by saying that this does not have to be interesting because it is not a Christmas letter. It is an ‘after’ Christmas letter. For making such a comment I quite naturally was put in charge of writing this letter.

I think I will start off by telling you that we all had a wonderful Christmas. On a serious note, Grandma Walker went home to be with the Lord on Dec. 20th. Most people say that it is difficult to lose a loved one during the Christmas season, but as daddy pointed out, for us it was a blessing to know she spent Christmas with the Lord. Paul and I were home when it happened and Danielle was able to be here for the memorial service. We will miss her, mommy probably most of all when I go back to school and she does not have anyone asking her for crackers. We all know that she is happier now. We are all thankful that she never had to spend time in a nursing home. The Lord took her home as soon as she became too difficult for Mom and Dad to care for.

Erin, though she spent Christmas in Romania, cheered us all up by sending something through friends at church for each of the twelve days of Christmas. That mind of hers is something else to come up with such an idea. It was so nice. Please keep her in your prayers as she teaches in the Bible college and works in the village church. She will be coming home in June to continue the summer masters program that she is currently working on.

Allyson and Kevin are now the proud parents of the cutest little boy in the world - Caleb Elijah Wilkins. Consequently I am the aunt of the cutest little boy in the world. If you are unfortunate enough as to not have seen a picture of this adorable blue eyed rosy cheeked baby, you can request a photo I am sure that any Walker would be happy to e-mail it to you. On Christmas day we all sat around and watched Caleb whack a piece of wrapping paper on the floor. Not even Paul could steal the show from such a cute stare that sucked on ribbons and crumpled up paper.

Danielle has spread her little wings and flown to South Carolina, many of you probably still get her e-mail updates. She is working as hard as ever. Not surprisingly she already has the nick name of a workaholic in Charleston. She tried to explain to me that there was no foundation to her having such a title, but please dear reader, can you imagine Danielle not deserving the title of workaholic? Lately she splurged and bought herself some tennis shoes maybe she will finish becoming super woman by becoming athletic just like she is always threatening.

Now I must say something about myself because I was simply berated last year about cutting myself out of our after Christmas letter. Hmmm… Praise the Lord that I finished one and a half years of college. I enjoy PCC very much. It is a nice atmosphere with excellent professors. Since I am the only child at home right now, I have decided to see how many ugly paintings I can finish before heading back to school. This next semester will be my most difficult yet. I will be working on campus again, but not in housekeeping.

Mom and I drove Paul back to school two days ago and he already sounded tired on the phone this morning. He is taking his Humvee drivers test today. I have no idea how hard or easy that may be, but when they do the training and take the test the same day it can’t be too hard. Paul has become the best uncle ever. Definitely he is the best that Caleb has from the Walker side. The first day he was back on Christmas vacation, he taught Caleb how to crawl and he has been crawling ever since.

Mom and Daddy are keeping busy putting firewood on and keeping the house warm. Daddy decided to get himself a snow blower this year, and now he knows the sheer joy of having ice and gravel blow into his face when the thermometer says 4 degrees. We all praise the Lord for the end of a wonderful year and the beginning of a new one. We have not forgotten any one of you and I hope you have not forgotten us,

Thinking of you all,
Charity for The Walkers