Saturday

We had our first Christmas piano open house. I would call it a success. It was a little awkward at first as neither of the first two who came wanted to be first to play, but it got better from there. I had 4 or 5 families come with their students. They brought yummy treats, too, and left them here afterwards, so I have been trying to clean up.:)


Saturday evening, Mike and I had our Sunday School class Christmas party. Mike's parents took care of our kids. Thank you, Mom and Dad! Mike and I had a great time at our party. The meal was prepared by a chef who was on site. Yummy appetizers, main dish, apple cider, and then bananas foster for dessert. In between dinner and dessert, the chef also did an ice sculpture of a Christmas tree. Fun to watch. It made me think of the movie "Groundhog Day." After our dessert (Mike's was made with Splenda), we had our traditional white elephant gift exchange. We ended up with some old TV show episodes (Bonanza, Ozzie and Harriet, Andy Griffith and the Dick Van Dyke show) and some candy in plastic jars. Not too bad. It had rained while we were there, but on our way home (10:45pm) the skies were almost completely clear. When we got up this morning, it was 30 degrees! It's now up to 43 degrees at noon.


We didn't go to church this morning since we still hear coughing and sneezing from Jenelle and Mike and I both have sore throats again. We are hoping to take the kids with us to the musical tonight at church. I hope we get to do that. Meanwhile, the kids are playing very nicely--cars, playdough (after which Clay used the Dust Buster to clean up) and now Clay is coloring. He put up the markers and a marker book before getting out the crayons and the coloring book. How responsible. Makes me proud.