A Civil Christmas Weekend
The Civil War game made for a good start to a busy weekend.
Kyle and I got home at about midnight Thursday, and were up at it Friday morning at about 5. The two of us collected so much sound from the game, it overwhelmed me.
Lets just say by quittin time Friday afternoon, I was ready for a break.
But there was no break.
I was asked to help emcee the Festival of Trees Gala Evening and Auction Friday night.
So after collecting all the kids from school, I had 15 minutes to take a 10 minute power nap.
Have you ever had to hurry up and fall asleep?
Thats when you know you are too busy.
The auction went well. Working with Dan Hern and Kelly Leonard and the folks at the Mercy Foundation was fun. They put on quite a show.
Needless to say, I slept in (6:45am) Saturday morning.
Then, it was on to decorating the house for Christmas.
I insist on two things: everything in the front yard must be illuminated and every light must be perfectly straight.
My wife insists on lots of things, but for this purpose, I'll stick to the big two: every shelf must be loaded with Christmas doo-dads and every box in our storage shed must be shuffled onto the back porch whether it contains Christmas items or not.
Slowly, over the weekend, our house transformed from a cluttered little house into a cluttered little Christmas house.
You'd think we were told told play the role of 'The Holiday Village' at the Festival of Lights.
Only we live on West Sherwood!
Well, my youngest daughter and I spent two days stringing lights on the house and a nice afternoon putting up: a row of lit candycanes, a lit snowman, two string of whte lights in our dogwood tree and another string of insanly large colored lights in the same tree.
That sure doesn't look like alot of work in print. But in reality, it took a schematic drawing (by an 8 year old) three extension cords, one of those electric posts you stick in the ground, a socket with two outlets on it and four bandaids to assemble.
Somehow, all of it is triggered with nothing more than the flip of the front porch switch.
Talk about your miracle season!
Sunday, I took my light stringing partner to family day at the Festival of Trees and that evening we hung our decorations on our tree. My oldest two made peanut blossom cookies and we had a nice dinner.
Deep down I know there aren't too many more years when all three girls are going to be here to do all these traditional things.
But for now, we're ready for Christmas.
Just after I reset the fuse box....
Kyle and I got home at about midnight Thursday, and were up at it Friday morning at about 5. The two of us collected so much sound from the game, it overwhelmed me.
Lets just say by quittin time Friday afternoon, I was ready for a break.
But there was no break.
I was asked to help emcee the Festival of Trees Gala Evening and Auction Friday night.
So after collecting all the kids from school, I had 15 minutes to take a 10 minute power nap.
Have you ever had to hurry up and fall asleep?
Thats when you know you are too busy.
The auction went well. Working with Dan Hern and Kelly Leonard and the folks at the Mercy Foundation was fun. They put on quite a show.
Needless to say, I slept in (6:45am) Saturday morning.
Then, it was on to decorating the house for Christmas.
I insist on two things: everything in the front yard must be illuminated and every light must be perfectly straight.
My wife insists on lots of things, but for this purpose, I'll stick to the big two: every shelf must be loaded with Christmas doo-dads and every box in our storage shed must be shuffled onto the back porch whether it contains Christmas items or not.
Slowly, over the weekend, our house transformed from a cluttered little house into a cluttered little Christmas house.
You'd think we were told told play the role of 'The Holiday Village' at the Festival of Lights.
Only we live on West Sherwood!
Well, my youngest daughter and I spent two days stringing lights on the house and a nice afternoon putting up: a row of lit candycanes, a lit snowman, two string of whte lights in our dogwood tree and another string of insanly large colored lights in the same tree.
That sure doesn't look like alot of work in print. But in reality, it took a schematic drawing (by an 8 year old) three extension cords, one of those electric posts you stick in the ground, a socket with two outlets on it and four bandaids to assemble.
Somehow, all of it is triggered with nothing more than the flip of the front porch switch.
Talk about your miracle season!
Sunday, I took my light stringing partner to family day at the Festival of Trees and that evening we hung our decorations on our tree. My oldest two made peanut blossom cookies and we had a nice dinner.
Deep down I know there aren't too many more years when all three girls are going to be here to do all these traditional things.
But for now, we're ready for Christmas.
Just after I reset the fuse box....
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