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Our Daily Thread 12-26-12

Good Morning!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas.

🙂

So did anyone get anything interesting?

Quote of the Day

“If  the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body  to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to  question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?”

Thomas  Jefferson

31 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-26-12”

  1. I get to be first on the day after Christmas! Hope everyone’s celebrations were memorable–in a good way, hopefully. I was sick all night Christmas Eve, and spent Christmas sleeping on the couch and sipping Ginger Ale. :–( But I talked to family on the phone, and I’m feeling perkier (?) this morning.

    I’m still catching up on posts I missed. Have a great day everyone! :–)

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  4. So… how ’bout that weather? Has anyone heard from Kim? Although no one was killed, those tornadoes sure tore up some stuff down that way…

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  5. Sorry to hear about being sick Debra. We had a short scare Sunday, but things cleared up rather quickly. Don’t know what that was about. We all stayed well here.

    Had a great early Christmas with the oldest and his girlfriend, then the real Christmas with the youngest yesterday. It was nice. We talked a lot before opening presents. The kid didn’t want to stop talking… Guess that was a good thing though, eh? 🙂

    Both of the boys claim not to be Christians at this point, which is disappointed to say the least. But at least they are still open to discussion…

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  6. I slept in this morning. You are all my first stop (after pouring a cup of coffee) to let you know that we are fine. The wind knocked a dead tree limb onto the roof but that was the extent of it. Most of the time bad weather skirts north of us.
    Mobile had some severe damage. They also had some tornados over there last week. It is colder this morning.

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  7. Debra, sorry to hear you were ill. That didn’t make for a very Merry Christmas did it?

    Makeitman, There was a time in my early twenties I doubted the existance of God. I think it comes along with that college ed u ma cation. We get off on our own and the only adults around us are telling us to question everything (but them) and we are exposed to so much and become so “cosmopolitan” that a belief in a dusty old God just seems ridiculous. Most of us find our way back were we belong;

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  8. Today, our oldest youngest is twenty six. Our youngest youngest is still five. How did that happen????

    In other news, last night at dinner we learned that our county charges prisoners twenty five dollars per night to stay in our jail. Other counties charge more. A nearby place charges seventy five dollars. I never knew that though an acquaintance had told me she was concerned about having to go to jail for some things she has done because they could not afford it. Further, the jail is no longer allowed to accept road kill or poached animals. That is very strange to me.

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  11. Mumsee,

    They do that here as well. But they don’t lock you up if you can’t pay, although they will put it on your credit report. I suppose it’s better than putting the cost of running a prison on the taxpayers. Oh wait, they already do that too. Never mind.

    🙄

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  12. I’m barely here. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

    At some point last night after Christmas dinner, as the conversation began drifting into the late hours, it dawned on me that I had the “early” (6:30 a.m.) shift this morning.

    Really?

    I’m half dead, but I got up in the dark & made it to work through the rain.

    Glad Kim’s OK & that Debra’s feeling better.

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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  13. Good morning all, woke up to a nice rain.

    QoD: Hubby and I pulled of a huge surprise. We have been dogless for sometime, but we are dog people. I guess the teen years have been big enough messes to clean up 😉 The kids have been lobbying for a dog, but I had been holding my own in the debate. So they were quite shocked when they all started opening presents that were dog dishes and chew toys, etc, and then a three month old puppy trotted out. If you are friends on FB too the video is there. Her now official name is Denali as she will be a trail dog whether she likes it or not. She is half sharpei, half lab.

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  14. MiM, young adulthood is a disbelieving, doubting phase of life. Some turn their back on God (many from over strict, legalistic backgrounds) in anger. That is dangerous, but those who doubt God in front of Him are in a good place. The more questions the better. God will answer the sincere questioner.

    Praying for your boys–Adios

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  16. We split our Christmas Day afternoon. Most of the men stayed home and watched football while all of the womenfolk +2 guys, went to see Les Miserables. Wow! If Anne Hathaway does not win an oscar they are not worth getting.

    When I whine about bad Christian movies, this is the kind of movie Christians should be making. Not operas per se 😉 but movies rich in thematic elements that leave you talking for hours afterwards. You could go scene by scene–or song by song as the case may be–and have deep conversations on each.

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  18. Sunday it looked like I was geting sick, but I gargled with essential oils for a couple of days and avoided it, to my relief, and my family’s. (We have a couple people who really shouldn’t be exposed to germs.)

    We went to my in-laws’ for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I got a couple of sweatshirts, some new earrings (just got my ears pierced a year ago, and had quite a limited selection), a couple of colored pencil books and a variety of colored pencils that look fun (Inktense–I already have “basic” ones and watercolor ones), and a couple of other things. In fact, I got two copies of one of the colored pencil books.

    My hubby got seven bags of dark chocolate (Ghiardelli, Lindt truffles)! Each of his daughters got him some, and I did too, so he should be well stocked up. (My sister reminded me that he and I are one, so they should be both of ours. So I told him he got seven and I got two, so that means we averaged four-and-a-half each. He’s quite a chocoholic, but I suspect I’ll get a piece here and there.)

    And Bob Evans had a coupon, for today only, for buy one get one free breakfast, so we went out for breakfast and then did our post-Christmas shopping. (It’s a long-standing “tradition” for me that the day after Christmas I go to Walgreen’s and stock up on Christmas candy and restock and paper or bows I need. And we also had some good coupons for Kohl’s; added together I got $32 worth of socks for $6.) The Bob Evans breakfast used the last of our gift card from last Christmas, and we got $50 worth of Applebee’s gift cards from his parents this year (plus a variety of other stuff).

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  19. My daughter had the flu over Christmas. 😦 Surprisingly, even while ill, she was quite the trooper (being the one with the most Christmas spirit in the household), and still oohed and ahed over her presents, even while having to run for extended “time-outs” in the other room. 😦 She is feeling better today. Hoping the rest of the family does not come down with it!

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  20. Oh, and my daughter is only 12 (almost 13). I actually was really proud of her. Her flu could have ruined Christmas. (I’ve had it happen to me TWICE over Christmas. Since I’ve only had the flu about 7 times in my whole life, statistically I have to wonder what it means that Christmas was hit twice!! So, I know how hard it is to have Christmas spirit when you’re miserable!)

    She cared more about everyone else still enjoying Christmas, than her own misery. In fact, after being up with her for some time Christmas Eve, I told her that I needed to get a little sleep (I’m getting old), but to come and get me if she needed me.

    It turns out that she just managed on her own through two bouts of ickiness, because “she didn’t want to wake me up, because I needed to sleep.” She was more worried about ME and how tired I was.

    Did I mention how sweet this girl is? (Anyone got a 15 year old or so son that should get introduced in 5 or 6 years?)

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  21. Loved the puppy video Adios. We were going to take in a Chocolate Lab that was going to be homeless but the woman who has him was able to keep him. My house is only 1100 SF and already has 3 humans, a dog, and a cat!

    I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas so that has kept me occupied for quite some time yesterday and today.

    Christmas china is put away for another year. Crystal and silver are washed, polished and put away. I have had a Cinderella kind of day with laundry and such.

    Mobile had quite a bit of damage from the tornados. Scary stuff.

    Karen, no my ex mother in law did not come for breakfast yesterday. We got up and opened presents. BG asked where her dad and Nana were. I told her Nana made other plans but I did call George and tell him that his daughter wanted to know where he was. She showed up for breakfast. Nana called later in the day and asked if she could drop by and bring BG’s gifts. I told her whenever worked for her. She came soon after that.

    I figure when faced with a situation like that it is always better to take the high road.

    My aunt and uncle (brother and sister) and cousin came to dinner last night. As Cousin came in I told him my knives needed sharpening. Mr. P said, “I could have sharpened them for you”. I told him I didn’t know him well enough to let him touch my knives. Everyone got a kick out of that. Nothing bugs me more than a dull knife and that is one of life’s skills my father did not teach me for he left me to flounder through on my own—that and how to clean and cook turnip greens–I mostly depend on others for that.

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  23. Fourth Arrow was sick on Christmas one year. She was lying on the living room couch while we opened presents, watching what gifts others were getting, running out of the room to get sick, coming back in to open a present, running back out of the room, rinse and repeat… Not much fun, but she didn’t complain.

    Well, Christmas is pretty much done at our house, although the gathering for my husband’s side of the family is yet to come (Sunday). Hubby is back to work today, Second Arrow has to work tomorrow, and just headed out now from here. She took 3rd and 4th Arrows shopping today to get things with the gift cards they had received for Christmas.

    Second Arrow got my husband and me a nice gift for our home. It is a framed picture showing a tree off to the right side, with these words on the left:

    Family
    Our family is like the branches of a tree.
    We may grow in different directions,
    but our roots remain as one.

    (The above words are centered and look nicer on the picture than here.) 🙂

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  24. Husband bought me a Perry Como CD. I have it on right now. The delightful six year old in glasses just came in from playing outside and has a big grin on his face and can’t stop saying, “I like that guy!”

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  29. Kare, that sounds like such a beautiful scene. At church Christmas Eve, a man played his guitar as he and his daughter sang O Come O Come Emmanuel. I love the sound of acoustic guitar, and wish I had learned to play it.

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