Brianne Henry

Tonight I spent a few lovely hours with some ladies from my church making hair bows for the girls at the orphanage in El Salvador. As women, we love to talk while we work and spent some time getting to know each other. The topics bounced from our husbands to our pasts to our families to having kids (or current kids) and so on. Ladies, I know you understand how topics can bounce quickly from subject to subject when we get together! Needless to say, we covered a lot of material in those short couple of hours. On the way home, I was thinking over all that was said, especially the parts about having/raising kids, and I was struck by a couple of thoughts. First of all, how do you raise godly children? That question led me to "what are the most important things to teach your children?" I obviously don't have the answer but I did think of two very important things I have learned that I want to instill in my children from a young age. And I also hope I continue to live by this

Generally (well for the past two Christmases that we've been married), I have sent out a Christmas letter documenting our year complete with a few pictures. This year I am #1 - a little lazy to address & stamp all those envelopes and #2 - on a pretty tight budget - so I have decided to use technology and send out our Christmas card via my blog. (And I also can't find my address list!!!!!!). 2011 has been a pretty crazy year for the Henry family. Really crazy actually. In February, after about 7 months of prayerful consideration, we resigned from our jobs, effective the beginning of June.   The Lord had called us to seminary, which required a move to Kansas City. We put our house on the market and prepared ourselves for the “big city.” The Lord blessed us with a great buyer for our house near the end of May (nothing like cutting it close). On June 14, we loaded up our borrowed Harley trailer and we set out for Kansas City. We moved from a 1300 square foot home into a 700 s