An INteresting?? Xmas.

Without to much trouble Xmas 2014 will be better.  It's been an interesting one to say the least.  The weekend before Xmas we had a huge, huge rain storm and the lower level flooded again.  Uck.  Not as bad this time but it was wet.  The attention to spouting helped somewhat but not enough so...the house has been a mess.  First the smell and moisture which really hit us after coming home from church.  Sears came on Monday to dry the room.  Fan's running humidifier running...of course...no one works on Christmas Eve so all that continued through till Thurs. afternoon.  Currently the family room stuff.  Doug's really is in the livingroom, dining room so the house is currently a total mess.  See...2014 will be better.  Went to Christmas Eve services...All three because of worship responsibilities particularily at the second service.  Noah and Andrew sang at the first and of course we sang at the third.  In bed by 1 am...awake at 5 am...sick by 7 am which continued throughout the day.  Slept a lot.  So...See...2014 will be better.  Today, Thurs. soup kitchen in the morning and this afternoon the carpet has been cleaned and the machines are all gone.  Need to wait on moving everything back another day.  Mess, mess.  Visual person that I am it has not been plesant to look at!  Christmas 2014 has got to be better.  I've missed the kids terribly.  Eric/Kat etc. in California on vacation and Jared/Kimmy in Mich.  We will be together in January.   Continue to sew bags going through all the fabric again to find fabric pieces big enough for bags.  I'm working on things for the Kenya Carnival the first of March. 

Need to think of putting decorations away at church.  It's got to happen soon but the Sunday afternoon I was going to have folks help now has been canceled because of a program that afternoon.  So it looks at this point that it will be a solo job on my part.  Guess I need to think that slow and easy gets the job done.  That was the case with preparation but I started mid Oct. Gravity will be in my favor getting things down.