Christmas Eve

Well, here we are at Christmas Eve. Didn't it get here really quickly? We attended the Christmas Eve service at church. It was a packed house. (Side Note: I'll have to thank Wayne for not pulling out "Peace, Peace" this year. Could be from the fact that I found it in the music library and burned it a couple weeks ago. Sorry. Kidding!) Jeff and I have been going to that service for 16 years. (Really getting old...) I remember our first one, Katherine was about 7 months old. I had her dressed in a beautiful green velvet dress and an older gentleman came up to us and said, "Isn't HE the cutest thing?" Must have been the dim lighting, since it was a candlelight service back then. Fast forward...really fast...and here we are with two teenagers and one preteen. I understand why people reminisce. It takes a lot of remembering to hold on to time that flies by so fast. Why, it was only a few years ago that I was on the floor, looking out the window of my Grandma's house, convinced that the blinking red light I saw in the sky was Rudolph's nose. I just knew it was. And I could not force my eyes to close in sleep. I don't think I slept a wink that night. I didn't.

How times change. I'm sitting here wishing MY kids would go to sleep because Jeff and I have "things" to assemble and I'm really sleepy. Very sleepy. Unfortunately, all I hear from upstairs is giggling and running around. They are not even close to sleep. Yawn...I... hope....they....go...yawn.....to bed........sooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Yawn...sorry. Dozed off for a minute there. I hope the imprint of the "N" key on my forehead will be gone before morning.

Happy Christmas to All and to all a good night!