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Our Daily Thread 12-23-13

Good Morning!

Only 2 Days Until Christmas! 🙂

On this day in 1783 George Washington returned home to Mount Vernon, after the disbanding of his army following the Revolutionary War.

In 1888, following a quarrel with Paul Gauguin, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cut off part of his own earlobe.

In 1919 the first ship designed to be used as an ambulance for the transport of patients was launched. The hospital ship was named USS Relief  and had 515 beds.

And in 1942 Bob Hope agreed to entertain U.S. airmen in Alaska.  It was the first of the traditional Christmas shows.

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Quote of the Day

“I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.”

TobyMac

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Some Bob Hope seems appropriate.

Do you hear what I hear? From Mansfield University.

And you had to know this was coming. 🙂 From Never Enough Lights.

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QoD?

Are you done shopping yet?

54 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-23-13”

  3. I’m ready for Christmas.

    But first a friend from church and I have to tear out a wall and get to the bottom of this electrical issue. Not what I had in mind for Christmas eve day, but I’m thankful Tom is helping me and that it will be resolved. 🙂

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  6. Pastor’s sermon was on the shepherds yesterday. One point he made was that people were always at work at their make a living job when they received their call from God. They were busy being shepherds or fishermen, etc. Husband’s Pastor preached about Joseph’s Christian response to the delicate circumstance of Mary being pregnant. We have some good Pastors in our neighborhood. We are doubly blessed. And two New Year’s. Eve services are a delight.

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  9. Good morning. We made it to our family gathering and back yesterday. Two hours west, snowing the whole way except maybe about the last ten minutes, getting lighter as we went, and then two hours east, heading back home, snowing the whole way except about the first ten minutes, getting heavier as we went, but not so heavily that visibility was hampered. Just an all day light snow in most of those places, with more accumulation obvious by the time we got home.

    And it is still snowing here… Husband has plowed our driveway and is now over at the neighbors’ doing theirs.

    Third Arrow has a dentist appointment this afternoon. I will be taking her to that (and Fifth Arrow will go along with us), and I will get one last present while in town, for First Arrow (if it’s still there), and then I will be done Christmas shopping. Hubby and First Arrow will go to work this afternoon, and Fourth Arrow will be home taking care of Sixth Arrow. Second Arrow comes home tomorrow for two days.

    That’s about it for us — a pretty normal day for most of us, except the outing this afternoon for three of us.

    Enjoy your day, whatever you all are planning!

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  10. Good Morning Everyone. I don’t have much to report. I have just a few more things to pick up for Christmas celebrations and I will be done. Very little drama around here which is what I asked for, so I am happy.

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  11. Good Morning everyone. So don’t worry. I haven’t crossed the river yet. I have been on the road for so long, I only get home on the weekends and I try to spend as much time as I can with Cindi while home. This morning there is this funny ice/snow fog in the air. Very cold too. Oklahoma City’s trees and lawns are covered in Ice. Talk about a Winter Wonderland. Cindi says she can go ice skating on the frozen pond in our back yard. The Week of the 3rd, I go to Dallas and the Next week I go to Louisiana,

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  17. Well, it’s not “clod” here, but cold. Today it’s only getting to 15°F and below zero tonight. I know our Canadians think that’s not too bad, but cold is relative. As long as I can get warm, I don’t mind what the temperature is outside.

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  18. Okay, so my husband informs me it’s not snowing here. That weather report above was brought to you by a tired mom who thought snow blowing off our roof was snow falling from the sky. 😛 In my defense, we hardly ever get wind here, so snow blowing off the roof isn’t a common occurrence.

    I think I need more sleep…after I go outside and clod around in the snow. 😉

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  20. Well, back home there is a windchill warning out, but we are above freezing here and will be until we had home! It’s currently 39F and I’m loving it!

    We attended church yesterday with hubby’s niece, her husband and another niece – had lunch with them and then headed to their place for a fun jam session. I love those kids!! She has had a very hard time with her mom and the others in her family, but she has extended so much grace to them and just keeps loving them. It’s nice to see and hopefully we were an encouragement to her.

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  21. All is well with kitten. When he got out of his confinement in the bathroom he ran all around for awhile Then he went downstairs to his bathroom litter box and used it (Yay). After a bit he was tired and came over to cuddle up for a nap. We are headed to the vet later. They wanted a name for the appointment so I gave Bosley.

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  22. The kitten name story just reminded me of a teacher about 20 years ago asking her elementary students which president had a stuffed toy animal named for him. She was looking for Teddy Roosevelt, but they all answered “Garfield”, since the cartoon cat by that name was more popular then. I was amazed they knew that there was a president named Garfield, since he only lasted a few months before he was assassinated. But then I red that they had been studying American presidents, and the teacher was quizzing them on presidential trivia.

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  23. Now I shall make chocolate and peanut butter fudge and divinity. Most of the boys are not here so I will eat it all. It is part of the DASH diet, I think. Oh, I suppose I will have a bit of help.

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  24. time to go spend more time with family. Oh, such a relief to have my Christmas newsletter done. The kids thought I was crazy taking all the pictures yesterday, but I got some great ones.

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  25. What is the DASH diet? Does that have something to do with “dashing through the snow”, burning off all those calories from eating all that fudge and divinity, perhaps? Hmmm? 😉

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  26. Calories? Fudge? Divinity? What? The DASH diet is for people to lower their blood pressure. It is just the right way to eat for most of us. What I have been eating for years, only for fruit and vegies, I have often substituted candy and cookies. It does not work that way. I believe the real has found it quite helpful, and my brother and sister in law have as well. I need to lower the blood pressure and get off of the obesity charts, so I am working toward it. But not right before Christmas.

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  31. LOL, Janice (@1:40)!

    Well, I always love all the things I learn around here. 🙂 I really did not know about the DASH diet. (Why are all those letters capitalized? What do they stand for?) I have low blood pressure, so I don’t know about those things. It’s usually something like 104 over 60-something. When I’m pregnant, nineties over fifties. A couple times, once when I was pregnant and once when not, it got down to eighties over high forties. That wasn’t too fun — felt pretty dizzy those times.

    Send me some of that fudge and divinity, Mumsee. I can use some. Okay, probably not the cavities, though. Never mind.

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  34. My blood pressure was like that for years until suddenly it wasn’t. It all started while doing foster care. Not that that would cause high blood pressure, mind you.

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  35. Yes, Amazon is just a keystroke away. I wonder if my children ever get tired of getting books? Oh well. I always tell them when they grow up and move out and get a job, they can by themselves whatever.

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  38. “Dieting Always Slashes Heaviness” 🙂

    How about an alternate QoD: What would you say DASH stands for? Peter already gave an answer. Who’s next?

    I will think about it while heading off to the dentist office now with a couple of arrows.

    Have fun!

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  39. um, I am just a homeschool mom, what do I now about spelling?

    Actually, it just stands for eating right but they needed a bunch of heavy words. You actually eat quite a lot of food with it, just not the “food” I normally select. But it is all good, easily available food. Common sense eating in common sense portions.

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  44. I think I finally started my Christmas shopping. I will probably need to do more in the capital after Christmas. Since African Muslims don’t celebrate Christmas, but merely come asking for their “Christmas”, it doesn’t really matter that I have it before Christmas Day. They think that Christmas is a week long holiday that lasts until New Year’s Day. The few gifts I’m giving for actual Christmas Day are purchased. I’m skipping town the day after Christmas so I will be saved from a lot of the asking.

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  45. The kitten is a girl.And I am $100.00 dollars less of net worth. Everyone at the vets office loved the kitten with the mustache. They have space for boarding her if necessary. One day at a time. It was noticed that this cat is very energetic.

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  52. Actually in doing minor research on the name Bosley, it has some similarity to our son’s name. West meadow and woods by the meadow. Son likes the name Bosley even for a girl cat. Boz or Bozzy the Boss may be in the making. When cats get fixed I figure it does not matter as much about the name matching the gender.

    We are attached to this kitty but would still give it to a friend who would make a good home for it. Wish I had a way to get it to AJ for his girls since it is a girl cat.

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  53. We’re off to see Saving Mr. Banks–it’s been a lazy vacation day for us as we’ve recovered from the 12 th annual cookie party last night.

    They’re all adults now, seniors in college. I fell asleep to the sounds of Gershin on the piano (two are music majors at, shudder, USC) and the laughter of happy kids.

    Time seems to be flying; though the adorable grandchildren make plenty of noise, we won’t miss them growing up! 🙂

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