Our Christmas Card
If I had had more time this year, I would have sent out Christmas cards. It’s something I LOVE doing. Sending mail is one of my hobbies, real mail with stamps and everything. Maybe next year, but until then, enjoy this “card” from our home to yours.
Merry Christmas 2022! Joyeux Noël! Happy New Year 2023! Bonne année!
In August 2022, we were able to go to Austria for the annual conference. Millstatter See is behind us.
In October 2022, we were able to go to the Calvary Chapel France first annual conference in the middle of France somewhere.
In December 2022, we all put on our Christmas pjs (thanks Aunt Kellee and Uncle Mark) and took a family photo. Real life brushing our teeth. Tonio was comic relief.
And a great big thank you TO ALL OF YOU who sent us your beautiful Christmas cards this year! It really means a lot that you remember us all the way over here in France, and we know international postage is not free ;). So thanks! They are all hanging proudly in our entry way and kitchen.
Love Linz
ps. If you’re interested, I’m going to do an overview of our 2022 below :
January
Tonio put up insulation in his parents guest room wall.
Daphné turned 7 and had quite a wild birthday party.
Tonio baptized 2 gals from church at an indoor pool.
February
Tonio went to Austria with Pierre for a leaders conference.
Daphné did a week of swimming lessons.
Lindsey turned 41.
March
Tonio put new flooring in Pierre and Nancy’s guest room and helped them paint.
We had 4 different families over for a meal at our place (at different times).
April
Lindsey organized an afternoon of games at Django’s school for 120 kids.
We drove 9 hours to Paris to visit Tonio’s brother and family for Easter.
May
Tonio and Lindsey flew to Cyprus with two missionaries from our church for a conference and to visit Tim and Darlene Mattox.
Lindsey volunteered to help with a large congress in Nice for parent associations all over France.
Tonio turned 40.
June
Django cut his finger with a cardboard knife, and we took him to the emergency room.
Tonio baptized two people from church at the beach.
Daphné went to the mountains for a week of nature classes with her class. This was her first time without mama and papa (or Papi and Mamie). She rocked it!
July
Lindsey organized the big end-of-the-year party at Django’s school.
We went to Italy to visit friends for lunch.
Tonio helped Pierre and Nancy paint their bedroom, and he put in new flooring.
Tonio and Lindsey were gifted tickets to some jazz concerts 2 nights in a row. We saw Tigran Hamasyan, Herbie Hancock, Samara Joy, Cimafunk, Marcus Miller, and Iggy Pop.
Lindsey, Daphné and Django went to the new Nice IKEA for the first time.
We attempted to go to Italy for a week vacation, but our plans were foiled.
August
We drove 9 hours to Austria for a week retreat.
Django turned 5.
We went to the Monaco Aquariums.
We received a miraculous call that a spot opened up for Django at Daphné’s school!
September
Daphné started 2nd grade (CE1), and Django started Kindergarten (Grande Section) at the SAME SCHOOL!
Grandpa Tim came to visit for 2 weeks.
Daphné started swimming lessons for the whole school year, and Django started intro to music classes.
Tonio remodeled our kitchen: new cabinets, new countertop, new oven and stove, new sink and our first dishwasher ever (HALLELUJAH!!!).
Tonio baptized a gal from church at the beach.
Lindsey flew to Colorado to visit with 3 girlfriends from Bible school.
October
We had our annual church retreat in the mountains (first time since 2019).
We drove 8 hours to the middle of France for the first annual Calvary Chapel Nice retreat.
Pierre and Nancy went to Israel.
Tonio and Lindsey went to Turin to visit friends then to Milan for a concert and drove back to Nice the next day.
November
Tonio’s brother and family visited - the cousins loved playing together.
Our family visited Rob and Cricri in Antibes after not seeing Rob for almost a year.
We celebrated Thanksgiving together at our home with Pierre, Nancy, Rob and Cricri.
Lindsey organized the Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner event through church.
December
Lindsey got glasses for reading and distance.
We had a 24-hour prayer time at church.
Lindsey participated in the Women’s Christmas tea at church.
Tonio organized administrative meetings for church.
Lindsey helped at Daphné and Django’s school for their Christmas events.
We rented a cabin in the mountains with our family, Pierre, Nancy, Sebastien, Maïna, Noé, Nils, Maïna’s dad and brother, Gilles and Jérémy.
We celebrated Christmas here in Nice with the whole gang mentioned above.
That’s a wrap folks. I didn’t include our bouts with fevers and infections and Covid, because that’s just boring. We are so thankful that God has sustained us, provided for our needs and so many of our wants this year. He is so good.
“Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.” -1 Chronicles 16:34