Monday

Happy Almost Christmas! The children are off school and thrilled about it, Jamie and I are in hot pursuit of all the latest toys of the season. We wish--we're actually trying to find perfume atomizers, typewriters, record players, gas masks, combat boots, aviator hats with goggles and that's just for the two children who would tell us what they want! The third child has been pretty much a complete guessing game.

And work is a madhouse (moving to a new location, year end and Christmas!) and so is church. Yesterday at church my committee had four things going--we had the 5th and 6th graders selling fair trade chocolate to make money for the Guest at your Table program through the UUA, we were selling merchandise from a local non-profit fair trade store, one of the youth asked if they could participate and sell some things she made at another table to raise money for a trip she's taking to South America to help children there and our committee was also, with the help of the junior high kids, taking all the donations we asked for the previous week of Christmas gifts for 9 families in need that our committee sponsored. And tonight, Claudia, Jordan and I (Sam's at her mom's and Jamie's going to be out shopping for gifts for our kids) are going to go shopping with some other committee members to pick up the items that weren't donated, wrap them and deliver them to the agency we're going through.

But that's ok! It's all coming together and it will be fabulous. Wednesday night we're going to throw up the tree, decorate it, make cookies, watch Christmas specials, go to church then open presents. After that, Jamie and I are going to an 11:00 service at a Methodist Church downtown. I'm so excited!!! Lessons and Carols, baby!