My extended family traditionally celebrates the gift giving part of Christmas on New Years Eve. This tradition was started when my nephew was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. My younger sister wanted him to associate Christmas with Christ’s birth, but decided he could start the New Year out with new things. Hence, the gift giving on New Years Eve. Continue reading
I trust you all had a good Christmas. We had a quiet Christmas with my mother and older sister and their husbands. Mark and I opened our gifts and we called my son and sang “O Come, All Ye Faithful” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”. This tradition started when he was young and would sleep in on Christmas morning. His dad and I would stand outside his door like carolers and sing him awake. I still call him first thing on Christmas morning and sing him awake! Continue reading
Merry Christmas, everyone! We had a wonderful visit with my younger sister’s family in Klamath Falls, OR. They showed us Rob’s and Nate’s school and the little theater where their family all performed in It’s a Wonderful Life. Then my sister took us to the Dollar Tree so Mark and I could do our traditional $10 hunt for gifts for each other. We don’t need much and we have fun hiding from each other in the aisles where we’re picking up little things so we have something to open from each other on Christmas. We ended the day along with Lauryn and Rob watching the original black and white version of A Christmas Carol. Continue reading
This morning we were out of propane in our external tank (it seems to go faster in the cold weather) and our hot water pipes were frozen. Our water tank which can be used with a water pump was a fifty gallon block of ice. I ended up walking across the snow to get to the bath house across the street to take a shower for church. Continue reading
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Jamey sent me a link I thought others might find interesting: http://www.professorfootnote.com/. It’s an annotated discussion of how Christmas developed in America. The Puritans banned Christmas because of their experience of it in England. So how did Christmas come to … Continue reading
This morning Dale LaFrance preached about the timing of Christ’s birth. I found it very interesting and thought I’d share it with you. Continue reading
I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. If you’d like to write and tell me about it, I’d enjoy reading about it. Continue reading
Today has been a somewhat frustrating day. Actually, it started last night when we lost electricity from the RV park’s post that we plug into. Mark couldn’t make his morning coffee and that is never a good start to the day! Continue reading
This afternoon my mother had an ice cream social for the whole family. It was partly for my brother-in-law’s birthday, and partly as a farewell party for Mark and me since we don’t know when we’ll be back again. It being President’s Day, my nephew, Nate, and his parents didn’t have school. It was wonderful to have all my family together, laughing and catching up with each other. Here’s a picture: Continue reading
Sunday, December 30th, Mark got hit by a runaway golf cart. He already has lower back pain from a military maneuver in 1998 and this exacerbated it, so after brunch on the 31st, we went to the VA Emergency room. This was sometime between 1:30 and 2:00 in the afternoon. Continue reading