I am so thankful for the opportunity to visit Williamsburg last week. We had such a great time. The best part about our trip (other than the fact that I ate at my favorite restaurant) was that we met up with two different families that we don’t get to see very often.
The first family was a family we met when we moved to Virgina Beach. We became friends at a very difficult time because my husbands injuries were most severe during our winter in Virginia Beach. Our friends drove my husband around and even took him to work almost every day for about 6 months. This was a huge blessing to our family. We spent Thanksgiving and Christmas with them two years ago and have so many wonderful memories of our time together. I am sad we do not see them now that we moved away, but am hopeful we can make time to see each other more in the future. It was fun spending part of our day in Williamsburg with them and catching up.
The second family is a family we see more frequently, but not enough in our opinion. They are friends who live in West Virginia. It was hard when we first met them because the dad worked for my husband and in the military that means no friendship. The wife and I became great friends though, and our kids grew very close. Last year the dad retired from the Navy so we have enjoyed family time together over the past year. These friends have been a wonderful example of servanthood to our family and I love spending time together. We will be spending this Thanksgiving with them in WV and I can’t wait! They surprised us in Williamsburg last week and we had a great time!
While it is hard moving so frequently, I love having friends that I can visit in so many different states. I realize that if the Navy hadn’t moved us to West Virginia and then to Virginia Beach, we would have never met these families and many others. I am thankful we have friends around the world!
Fun in Williamsburg
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You’re so right! We have friends everywhere. (I cringe when I hear bad news…my first thought is always, “Who lives there?”) They’ve opened homes and hearts to us all over the world. We’ve been so blessed to live all over the place – now we know we’ve left a trail of friends behind, and they know our home is open to them (provided they can handle our cats, LOL) at any time. We’re hosting one of my high school friends and her daughter in January.
I believe hospitality is a very important ministry…opening our hearts so we can welcome others is very, very important.
I’m with you. It’s not easy to move every two years, but the Good Lord has blessed our lives with wonderful and enduring friendships – some 20+ years on, I wonder how I would have survived without my global supply of friends!
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What a blessing friends are! Glad you were able to enjoy their company!
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What a special time that must have been! The pictures look so fun! I would love to visit there someday.
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That is so wonderful that you have so many friends in different places. I’m glad you were able to visit with them! Williamsburg looks beautiful, I would love to visit there.
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What a blessing! It is great to have friends all over with being military. We are hoping to visit some of them when we go on our CHRISTmas East coast trip.
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I would have to agree about the servanthood of that WV family! They always go above and beyond the call of duty…even though they are very busy running their business.
They watched my kids for my most recent birth. They finished up dishes and laundry that I had started. What a relief to sit on the couch after giving birth and see a folded basket of laundry! They are so good at seeing things that need to be done and doing them.
I can see Mom’s example rubbing off on her children too. She and I went to visit a friend who had just had a baby. We left her kids with my kids. Her daughter did the dishes for me while we were out.
This family is such a blessing to our family…not just because they serve…but because they always do it so joyfully. What an example for all of us!
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What a fun trip! I’ve always wanted to go there. Great post. Thanks for sharing.
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How fun! When we lived in MD, we visited Williamsburg and Jamestown quiet a few times. Beautiful area and SO much history!
Looks like you had a great time!
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Sounds like you had a great trip! Love the pics!
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Wow! We gotta stop meeting on the web like this!! Who knows, maybe we might bump into each other at church or something!
I just now got on your site and am loving it! joined a few days ago. Long hair hippie guy reminded me about it. I”m pretty sure you told me about it in Williamsburg, but I never got on.
I made 3 of your taco bakes this morning for the freezer. I’ll pull them out for fun nights, can’t bear to feed the family a constant diet of that too much, but i agree it did look yummy!!
You’re doing a GREAT job with the site!!
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