Two years ago tonight I mentioned making preparations for New Year’s Eve, but I did not mention anything about our celebration. There’s not much to it, really, but it’s a bit of an extravagance. I buy quite a few foods I would not buy at any other time of year, from pizza rolls [...]

Rehearsal did not go quite as well as hoped yesterday, but it did go well. The big glitch was that Baxter decided he was not well enough to attend after I had spoken with him; I wound up running out at the last minute, and Brittany went to pick him up but couldn’t find [...]

My mother-in-law’s Christmas Tree arrived today, from a company that promised delivery before Christmas and now is apologizing with embarrassment that it did not ship until yesterday. They have refunded the shipping charges, but we will keep the tree; it should survive to be planted in one yard or another at some point, I [...]

I did not finish yesterday’s work yesterday. I got called away for an errand while working on the Lutheran forum, and when I returned the computer decided to freeze. Since I had to make a delivery of Christmas dinner and a poinsettia (the decorated tree never arrived) to my mother-in-law, I did so [...]

It was shortly after nine that I got dressed for my long winter’s nap on the night before Christmas.
That actually was nine this morning, and the son who was most helpful in the late hours with putting presents under the tree and stuffing stockings was still in the living room plucking on his mother’s guitar, [...]

Some time last night, my wife and I had resolved that we would hold Christmas late. A dear family member was going to be delayed most of a week, and on top of that an important gift had not arrived. New Years Eve would be a fine day to celebrate Christmas, we thought; [...]

I had to do a bit of driving last night. Mostly it involved picking up people who needed or wanted to be here for Christmas who were unable to obtain their own transportation. However, in an odd turn that has me pondering, our art director asked me to autograph a photo for a [...]

We’re not ready for Christmas.
Of course, we never are at this time of December, but it seems we are less ready than usual.
In our favor, it also seems that it’s going to be difficult to bring the family together for Christmas day, so we may be delaying our primary celebration a few days to accommodate [...]

My day has been chewed up into little bits, but otherwise I would say it was profitable.
It started this morning, really; I was not entirely awake when I was trying to get the boy to school, and although he rose at a decent time he had trouble finding decent clothes, and so missed the bus. [...]

Yesterday’s errands–delivering one son and some furniture to the home of another–turned into more than a chore; I have sore muscles everywhere, and they were sore enough to make driving difficult even so soon as the ride home. It was after two before I was here, and I threw in the towel on the [...]