Shalom Dear Friends!

I would like to let you know about a special purchase that Shining Stars Magazine made this week …

Left to right: Samuel (11 yesterday!), Abigail (12), Ruthie (17), Lydia (8), Tommy (19), Sarah (15 tomorrow!) and myself (21).

On Wednesday, my brother Tommy and I made the 12 hour round trip to northern Kentucky/almost-Cincinatti to pick up a printer that I had purchased on eBay. This HP 5550DN prints in color (and black and white), on 11×17 paper and it connects to my computer! :)

When we children gathered around to take a picture this evening, someone suggested that we all wear sunglasses … because it was only through sunglasses that the past issues looked okay!

Can y'all tell that we have a lot of fun around here? :)

While we are so thankful for the 400+ pound Toshiba FC22i that has faithfully copied the past fifteen issues of SSM, we are hoping and praying that the blurry covers, discolored and fuzzy pictures and streaked text will be a thing of the past and that this new printer will serve us well from now ’til kingdom come :) I don’t know how many times I looked at the copied covers and groaned – wishing that you all could see the original. I printed a couple pages today and the quality was EXCELLENT! Now I just need to figure out how to print on 11×17 paper – double sided :)

Thank you for your prayers and support … we’ve been praying for this printer to come for a long time and I am so happy that it is finally here!