Featured in this picture:
- A few of the cookies we made
- Our little tree
- Heather’s newly shortened hair
Well… what to say about the past week.
Starting back on the first noteworthy thing, Wednesday we made Tuna Casserole for the kids at church. The first kid in line took one look at the pan, scrunched up his face like he was about to cry his eyes out, and nearly shouted “Tuna? But I don’t want to eat tuna!” Let me tell you, it didn’t make the chef feel real great about the meal. On the whole though, the kids managed to put away nearly all the food we prepared.
Friday we had our first Christmas event, my work team arranged to meet for dinner after work. It was fun to introduce Heather to so many of the people I work with, and to meet their spouses and significant others. I hate to stereotype, but many of the software developers are firmly on the introvert side of the fence. The majority of their wives and girlfriends are extroverted. It makes for an interesting time when you get that group together. I think Heather had about 15 conversations and I said about that many sentences, but everybody had fun!
Saturday, we had planned to run a few errands, and then have friends over for dinner and decorating Christmas cookies. The weather had other plans. Those plans not only included the first snow of the year, but an 18 hour blizzard warning from the national weather service.
When it was all said and done, I think we only got four to five inches of snow, but the wind made them into a major problem! That wend by the way, produced windchill down to a breath-taking negative 22! Our friends decided not to risk the cold, and we ended up staying home and not even making the cookies. The errands did get run though, including Heather getting eight inches trimmed from her hair!
Sunday, we tried several times at church to recruit people to help with the cookies, but the December “way too much going on” bug has already arrived, and nobody had the afternoon free! Heather and I ended up doing the cookies by ourselves, but we had quite a bit of fun doing it!
I looked at the calendar for the next two weeks and… well I won’t be bored. Hope everyone else is staying warm and not too crazy busy yet! 🙂
-Jordan
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