So, our week long Christmas celebration has come to a close. We are back home and reunited with the dog. We will get the cat later. Aside from the weather related delay on Saturday, the rest of our trip went very well. We were fed amazing spreads of food. We got to visit with family and spend time playing games, socializing and even just hanging out. We saw National Treasure 2. (Nick and I also watched the 1st) Both were better than expected, but we liked the first better. We also saw Hairspray. It too was better than expected. We gave and received wonderful gifts.
We are also thankful that our church has been blessed with such wonderfully talented musicians. For our Christmas Eve service we sang 2 hymns I had never heard of. This isn't uncommon, but the 2nd one, I don't think ANYONE knew. Its a bad sign when the song has 3 verses and even the "organ" player stops in the middle of the 2nd. We did sing a pretty neat version of Silent Night that included a banjo. Yup, a banjo. It was pretty neat. We did not get to sing Joy to the world. I think it just isnt the same with out some Joy.
Our return trip started at 5:15am. I tend to suffer from some motion sickness (remember our cruise?) so long road trips aren't always fun for me. My mother-in-law recommended Bonine. It worked remarkably well for me. I wont say the 14 hours flew by, but it sure did help to be able to sleep, read and look at an atlas for long periods of time. My atlas story will come in a bit.
We got to MN and went right to my parents house. Saturday morning we went to my Grandma's house to move her out. She was moved into an assisted living place. She hates that it isn't "home" yet, but seemed to be pretty agreeable to going to the room for meals and MAYBE looking into the activities they have planned. I think she will adjust and find it isn't as bad as she has made it to be in her mind.
My mom's siblings and kids (minus one of the kids) came to her house and we celebrated Christmas and family. We had a lot of fun and a lot of food. Today (Sunday) we celebrated as a family with my parents and brother. We ate MORE food and exchanged gifts and watched some football.
We arrived home a little while ago and unpacked most of the car. We have quite a few treasures. We got quite a few DVDs, which isnt a bad thing with the writers strike still going on.
Anyway, I think that is all for my holiday update 2007. We plan to continue our tradition of New Years eve trilogies, we just haven't decided which it will be yet.
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and wish you great things for 2008.
1 comment:
Welcome home! The banjo still makes me chuckle. I wonder if you sang the same hymn that we did? I can't remember the name of it either.
The other funny thing I forgot to mention at the service I attended... we were skipping a hymn so the pastor stopped the organist who was already playing the carol to announce that we were skipping ahead and the song was Away in a Manger. I know there are new people who attend church on Christmas however I think they would have caught on that we weren't singing Lo a Rose Ever Blooming. Happy New Year!
I also agree...Joy should be a necessary element of a christmas lineup of music...even if it's just one verse.
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