Productive

What a day! It started with a very good morning at church. Today is the first Sunday in Advent. The beginning of the new church year, and a time that we look forward to the coming of Jesus, both as the little baby of Bethlehem, but also as the triumphant king who is coming again to reclaim his kingdom, and to recreate the world to the perfection that was in the beginning. After church I chewed on a left over turkey leg from Thanksgiving...delicious...and then headed out into the backyard to rake up the leaves that had fallen in the past week. Once that was done it was time to put up the light fixture that we bought for the kitchen yesterday at Ikea in Seattle. Ever since we bought this house we have had an awful fluorescent light hanging on the kitchen ceiling, and Kay and I finally got up the nerve to replace it. we saw a new fixture in Seattle that cost only $25.00 so we jumped on it (the light bulbs cast almost as much as the fixture itself). It is not the most beautiful thing, but it is a definite improvement over what had been there, so we are happy with the change. Beth wanted to see what it looked like so there it is...up above...for all to see.

After completing the project we headed for Home Depot to find a light fixture to replace the one that is over the kitchen sink. That is the problem with making a slight upgrade in the decor...it leads to the desire to do even more. We went to Home Depot to look, and couldn't leave without dropping more than $100.00. I think that most of you can identify with that experience.

After returning home we headed across the cul-de-sac to spend a few minutes with my good buddy Brady, his parents Jason and Sharelynn, along with our friends Larry and Darlene from Boise, who just happen to be Jason's dad and mom, and Jillian and Brady's grandparents. They came up for the Thanksgiving holiday, and due to our busy-ness we hadn't gotten much time to reconnect until this evening. After about an hour it was time to come home and have dinner, roast pork and yam fries, and then spend a couple of hours crying like a baby while watching "A Dog Named Christmas", a Hallmark special on CBS.