We had a really slow day yesterday. Not slow like in a retail establishment that
has few customers. Rather slow in that
we didn’t feel really rushed beyond acceptable stress levels. It almost felt like an actual day off. Well, if you don’t count the time I spent
going over the teaching for Sunday.
We started the day by going to …
Target. I know. We’ll have to send an apology letter to
WalMart. But we still needed a few last
minute gifts, and we had already exhausted our shopping attempts there. So on to Target. The trip itself fit in pretty well with the
theme of the day. We basically strolled
around the store, piling up steps on our daily regimen, but little else. We did find the gifts we needed, though. Final checks off the list, and we are ready
for Christmas …
As we were pulling up to the house I got a
FaceBook message from some friends of ours who are living and teaching in El
Salvador. To my surprise it was
accompanied by a photo … of Chris standing at our front door. I immediately texted him back and asked when
they were at our house. His answer? “About twenty minutes ago.” They had popped into town briefly to meet up
with his family and had just a few extra minutes. So sorry we just missed seeing them. They are a really fun family.
The rest of the day was spent doing … not
much of anything. Well, Chris was always
doing something. She is finishing up
some final loose strings related to Bethlehem Street Market. She also has to fill in that nice new desk
calendar she got from someone who loves her an awful lot. Of course she gets one of those every
year. Somehow it always seems appropriate. And she does use it all through the
year. Gotta have some way of keeping up
with kids’ work schedules and grandkids’ baseball and soccer and basketball and
karate schedules and Seaside events and birthdays and … I don’t even know what
all she has on that thing. Glad she has
it, though.
We did watch some TV. Saw Texas A&M defeat Oklahoma State in a
bowl game. Watched a little of an old
college basketball game. Kevin Durant
led Texas to a narrow overtime victory over LSU. Not sure what year that was. I didn’t even realize it was a replay until I
saw the back of Durant’s jersey with his name on it. There was one Hallmark movie thrown in
there. That’s what was on when our
neighbor came over to explain an “unusual” text Chris had received earlier in the
day. Just a case of mistaken identity, but
it made for a good laugh all around. And
we closed out the day watching a few episodes of Cupcake Wars. Those people had to make displays and bake
1000 cupcakes in about an hour and a half.
That’s just ridiculous. They
accomplished it, though. Can’t say I
would have been a fan of tasting the cupcakes, though. Most of them sounded pretty nasty.
Matthew 4:4 says, “Jesus answered, ‘It is written: “Man shall not live on bread alone,
but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”’”
Father, watch over the Passons family as
they travel this Christmas season. Amen.
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