Monthly Archives: December 2014

And as always, time is very full, and running short! We have two children in the Christmas play tomorrow night at our church, so they have needed to be there for several rehearsals. The name of the play is “Christmas Hang Ups”, and the children are costumed as ornaments. One of our boys is a cowboy ornament, the other is a Michigan ornament, in honor of where we came from.

Since the twins have play practice late this afternoon, and their dad is doing the lighting, he will take them, while I take our two older boys for their hair cuts. I have a hair appointment tomorrow, so it’s been decided that the twins can get their hair cut while my color is setting.

This week, we have a group of people from church doing Christmas caroling. Last night, they came to our street, and my husband and I went to the doors to invite our neighbors out to hear the singing. we gave them each a dozen cookies, a Christmas card, and an invitation to our children’s play, along with our beautiful candlelight Christmas Eve service. Tonight, we will go do the same in someone else’s neighborhood, and THEY will be the one’s going to the doors.

All in all, it’s been a very busy couple of weeks, and I’ll be very happy when all the rush is over, even though a lot of it has been good. Doing the caroling, which was meant to be a blessing to others, turned out to be one for us, as well, especially as we kept hearing from people that they didn’t think anyone still did caroling! I hope you are all enjoying this time of year, too! 🙂

November was hugely busy. First, a whirlwind trip back to Michigan for a loved one’s funeral. Let me tell you, you know when you have very special friends who make it possible for that to happen, without whom I would not have been able to get there, have a place to stay, a car to borrow, get home, and have money for expenses. Thank you both, you know who you are, and I love you both, very, very much! After that, between time change weekend and going back and forth between three time zones, I was REALLY tired for a while, but am better now.

Meanwhile, I’ve been working on a large order (100 cards) of Christmas cards for our hair stylist. I have 40 more to make, which she will receive by Wednesday.

Our Thanksgiving was very quiet, just us this year, and my husband worked until 2:30 that day, so we simply had dinner at our usual dinner time. I prefer to do that on holidays anyway, if possible, rather than trying for a mid-day meal. I’ve no wish to be up in the middle of the night to put in a turkey like my mom did.

Our Christmas tree is up, though not yet decorated. I’ll post pictures once it is, though.

Well, there you have it, a quick update. There will be more in future posts, as soon as I have time to upload photos and such . . . things like my teens at the turkey bowling their youth group did, lol!