Cruisin'

We're cruising along ... toward:

Christmas Break Countdown*:*I should take this opportunity to remind everyone that this countdown does not include today, or it does not include Friday which will be "zero" ... maybe because the vacation actually starts that day?! Or maybe I just mis-counted. Regardless, I'm not going backwards because that would be too depressing, so we're stuck with "3" ... we'll call those three Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, then Friday, the break begins (even though there is school and work that day).

Yesterday was filled with normal activities ... school, work, grocery shopping, etc. The kids built and decorated "gingerbread" houses (made from graham crackers) after Emma returned home from school. We did the normal Monday evening library run, had some hot chocolate in front of the fire, and then got to bed!

Tonight we're looking forward to Timmy's little Christmas show at pre-school.

Administrative

Just wanted to let all my faithful readers (via email) know that there is a new blog post up this morning ... it did not get delivered to you because I screwed up and somehow sent it before I had typed anything!

Weekend highlights.

Well, here are the high lights (as I remember them).* Hopefully you who receive this via email will get it. I accidentally hit some keystroke combination and the thing published before I actually had a body to this created.

*The weekend went by rather quickly, as did the last week. I guess all this waiting for Christmas vacation is perhaps a good thing!

• Friday = pretty normal day. Cyndie did a lot of baking.
  
• Saturday morning we slept in until almost 9. The kids had a very fun time doing their own thing, making Christmas presents for us, playing. There was a bit of a mess in the kitchen when we went down there, but it was worth it to sleep in!
• We spent some time cleaning the house for the open house on Sunday (see below).
  
• Saturday afternoon was cousin Sarah's birthday party. It was a Build-a-Bear home thing that the kids totally enjoyed. We hung out there until after dinner and made it home for a late bedtime.
• Sunday the kids sang some Christmas-y songs in church. They were both very cute!
• After church we had an open house and Cyndie sold some Thai bags that some missionaries in Thailand are helping local ladies make. (the thing about the bags is at the bottom of that linked page). That was fun ... helped us clean the house up a bit.
• For dinner, Grandpa came over to babysit and Cyndie and I went out to Japanese and then ran a couple of errands.
• We got a lot of rain yesterday. Much of the snow that was on the ground is gone. It's supposed to be very cold for the next week or so. I haven't seen any weather forecasts to either confirm or deny a white Christmas.

Have a good week all!

Just a week of work/school remaining!

Christmas Break Countdown:

The countdown continues ...

Days until Christmas Break:

Six days ...

Christmas Break Countdown:

Friday ... t-minus 7 days.

Days until Christmas Break

Not a whole lot new to report today. Emma had swim lessons yesterday afternoon and then we hit the McDonald's to use her reading coupon for a happy meal. She and Tim were both excited about the loot that they got from their meals ... Emma a small My Little Pony, and Tim a Bionicle guy (don't really know much about that, but it looked sufficiently like a Transformer to excite Tim, plus it shoots something ... which he will promptly lose). I did a little Xmas shopping both before and after that, and with that trip, I think wrapped up most of the shopping we'll do.

The only other thing of note on our minds now is the house in California. The rental agreement is up at the beginning of February so we are deciding whether to sell or rent again. Pray for us on that one as it's a big decision!

It's Friday, yea!