2019 Christmas Letter, Part 3

     As January of 2019 turned into February, winter descended on us here in the upper Midwest and didn’t quit until April. My kids came and shoveled off the roof of our house twice and we paid somebody else to shovel off the garage.

 I guess pictures tell the best story.

 At least, before all this winter wretchedness, the kids had traveled back to Kenya the end of January. Nick and Val had been there multiple times, but this was the first time my son-in-law had made any trip like that.  

 They took along a girl they knew from high school and her mother. Everyone had a good time, even though there was a bit of a snag with the mom. Life goes on, though, right?

 The worst thing that happened that time of year was that one of cats, Alice, the one we called the Kitten, just because she was so small, crossed the rainbow bridge, suddenly and unexpectedly. 

 She had been with us for only eight years.

 I can’t believe I don’t have many good pictures of her.   

 Unfortunately, her passing wasn’t the only loss we suffered this year.