Dear Blog....

Dear Blog.... I am sorry I have ignored you for a week. With so much going on, you'd think I'd be on here blogging away, but the busy-ness of the season has pretty much captivated my time, attention, and energy!!! I so much want to stay Christ-focused during this Christmas season so with everything we are involved in, we offer it up to Christ as a means of ministry or activity in His name.

So what has been going on since my post on last Monday? (Last Monday seems like eons ago!!!!) On Monday and Tuesday, we were busy with last minute decorating, clean-up, and meal preparation for our 4th Annual Couples' Christmas Party on Tuesday night. Our home and our hearts were graced to have 7 couple friends over (including our dear pastor and his wife) for the dinner party and everyone had a good time. All week long, we had a dear friend in the hospital who had cancer surgery, so we made visits there until he came home on Thursday. Another friend from church has cancer and needed a ride to her last radiation treatment on Wednesday and we took her to that. Church on Wednesday night On Thursday afternoon, we picked up Josh and Jaden from school at 3:00 and had them through the dinner hour and took them to the program with us. I forgot to mention that the parents of our Indiana campus daughter arrived on Thursday and were here until Saturday morning. I had left-over lasagna from Tuesday night's dinner party and fed us, the grandsons, and our Indiana guests on Thursday evening in addition to preparing a meal for our friend home from the hospital. . We went to the Academy Christmas Concerts on both Thursday and Friday nights as Belle sang in the choir on Thursday night and Josh played trumpet in the band on Friday night. Amy emceed the program on Friday night as well. Both programs were awesome. On Friday morning, Richard went to the Retirement Center Bible Study, we ate lunch with friends afterwards, and then he and I shopped until 3:00 at which time we picked up Belle at school. We took her out to dinner before the program on Friday night. On Saturday, I got up early and got busy with some chores around the house. I had to finish up a sewing project for our retirement center Bible study Christmas gifts so got that done. Richard and I ran out to do a bit more Christmas shopping and to get a bite of dinner. When we came home last night, I wrapped a gift so that everyone would have ONE under our tree as Brian, Amy, and the kids were coming over for Sunday dinner.

That's been my week. It made me tired just re-hashing all of that so think I'll go take a nice long nap!!!! Merry Christmas!!!!!