New Year's Eve

The last day of 2006 - sometimes it is hard to believe that we've already lived through 7 years of the new millennium. The end of the year has had it's surprises - the death of Jerry Ford & the very quick hanging of Saddam Hussein. As we've watched the national funeral for Ford, John and I are struck by how much HISTORY has happened in our lifetime. And just how many more "icons" we will watch pass away in our lifetime. Today I am still trying to get over a bad head cold - but I do want to spend some time today to begin to plan 2007's garden. And hopefully I'll be able to fix the boys' favorite New Year's Eve snacks for tonight. Happy New Year everyone!

Thursday - Back to Work

Well the holidays are over and it's back to work. I actually worked a few hours on Tuesday doing the deposit, but no one else was there so it didn't count. Today - back to regular hours. For those of you who do not know - I've changed my hours at the church AGAIN! Now I work Monday and Friday from 7:30 am to 12:30 and Tuesday & Thursday from 10 am to 3 PM. Hopefully the two early days will enable me to concentrate more on the financials without alot of distraction. I will continue to do Deaf Ministries bookkeeping at home - my preferred way of working. Michael had to go back to work yesterday...he said there were not many children there though.

I took some time to begin to look through the seed catalogs yesterday. So many new varieties - I wish I could grow them all! I need to spend some time figuring out how to lay out a few new flower beds.

More later!!!

Merry Christmas!

I hope that all of you are having a wonderful day! I wonder how many other 49 year old women out there were excited to get a flash drive in their stocking and a stick of ram for their laptop??? But that wasn't the only surprize - the boys got me something that I've wanted for decades!! A cobalt blue kitchen-aid stand mixer! I'm getting ready to try it out right now! My arthritis has been really keeping me from doing alot of the baking I like to do because it hurts my hands so much to stir and knead, etc. But now the mixer will take care of it for me. The boys said it was a partially selfish gift - as they were looking forward to lots of food being made.


Well, just a short note for now - gotta go make our ham dinner fixin's. Merry Christmas!

Happy Christmas Eve!

We enjoyed a breakfast of Ambrosia, Sausage-Egg Casserole, Cheese Grits, coffee and juice. So nice to get out the special Christmas dishes and gather around the table with all three boys! Of course the conversation centered on computers and who wanted to switch which parts around. I just smile and nod! We listened to the Cambridge broadcast of Nine Lessons & Carols, that I mentioned in yesterday's blog. Then we did our stockings. Everyone was pleased with what "Saint Nicholas" had left. There were several surprizes in my stocking, that I didn't know about! Next we will enjoy a leisurely day, the boys are all on their computers, Daniel still has to wrap gifts, but the rest of ours are done and under the tree. I'm fixing a pork tenderloin, asparagus casserole, & potatoes for lunch today and then we will have our traditional Swiss Cheese fondue and Shrimp cocktails tonight while we watch the Bengals play. Then off to the candlelight service at 10:30 PM....should be a wonderful day. Merry Christmas everyone!

Happy Christmas Eve Eve!

It's Saturday - the day before Christmas Eve and all the boys are home! So the celebration starts today. John and I are enjoying a quiet morning with coffee and bagels while listening to Weekend Edition, while I plan out my baking for today. The gifts are wrapped and under the tree and all the groceries are in the house - so we are ready. We are looking forward to lots of visiting, watching movies together and of course as is usual in this household - lots of computer talk, fixing, tweeking, etc. We wish all of you a very Merry Christmas as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. May you have a special time of worship this holy day. Our church is having our traditional Christmas Eve Candlelight service of Lessons and Carols - patterned after the one in Cambridge England at King's College. You can probably find out when your own public radio station is broadcasting it - ours will be LIVE on Sunday morning at 10 AM. If you are interested in the history behind this service - check out the website
www.wguc.org/events/nine_index.asp