December 23, 2005
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‘Tis the season to be sickly.
Cough, cough, cough, cough, HACK!
Now blow your nose!Today was a lovely day which was not spoiled even though it included a flat tire and a 35 minute wait in a Sears Auto Repair center watching Country Music Television. Every year for many years now, my mom and I go shopping for a whole day, usually on the 23rd of December. We didn’t have a single thing we needed to buy, but we enjoyed spending the time with one another, eating out, looking for good deals, popping Day-Quil, and asking, “Do you have a tissue?” It seems that both of us were in the throes of miserable colds, so we both had noses like Rudolph and sounded like Typhoid Mary as we phlegmatically made our way through the mall in Altoona.
Tomorrow being Christmas Eve Day, we will visit my dad and family. My step-sister Ashley is a dead-on present-buyer. She seems to instinctively know what each of my children would want, and usually it’s something I hadn’t even considered myself! She introduced us to the Barbie movies (which, despite my initial prejudices, I found to be quite entertaining) and David to a portable CD player. So, I’m excited to see what wonders she thought of this year.
Christmas Eve we will either spend at Faith Baptist Church or at home doing our own Christmas Eve service complete with lit candles and the singing of Silent Night. I will have to bake the birthday cake for Jesus so that the kids can decorate it.
Christmas morning, for the second year in a row, we will open our Sellers’ presents here at the house. Then, we will load up and go to my mom’s to be joined by my Grandma Norris, Grandma Wright, and Aunt Kay Kay for the opening of presents again. After feasting on ham and cornflake potatoes, we plan to head up to my Grandma and Grandpa Bressler’s house to visit with my dad’s side of the family. Then, it will be back to my mom’s house where we will lounge around for the next day or so, possibly going to the movies the night of the 26th.
So, there you have our Christmas routines.
I ran across an interesting column by Anna Quindlen which you can read HERE. I found the second half, beginning with “The cycle of the devotional year…” quite interesting.
May everyone reading have a blessed Christmas!
Comments (2)
the nice thing about the Barbie movies is they’re based on real fairy tales (well they used to be) so you know the stories will be good.
(I used to watch them with a little girl I babysat; that’s the only reason I can have an intelligent conversation about them.)
phlegmatically…nice word!