Today has been a day of doing a little of this and a little of that. I had a goal today of making Cranberry Orange Bread and cleaning out the refrigerator. The bread is made and all sliced and on a plate for Woody to deliver to church in the morning. Our class has been asked to provide refreshments for the folk who will be working on assembling the Night In Bethlehem Village and other decorating chores around the church campus. The refrigerator is in better shape to take on Thanksgiving feast items as they are purchased and made next week. For his daily walk, Woody walked to and from the Post Office and on the way home stopped at our pharmacy to pick up a couple of my prescriptions. This evening Graham came over to complete his task of taking apart his K'nex roller coaster. Anytime that any of the children asked when I was going to start decorating for Christmas, I kept telling them that I couldn't till Graham took apart the roller coaster! The minute that he got all the roller coaster parts put away in their proper places, Graham wanted to start decorating! I'm really not ready to face that mess! I am not having the Sunday School class party at our house this year so I am not in as big of a hurry to get the decorating done. But Graham and I did go up to the Christmas closet and he was able to find the Fisher Price Nativity boxes and the cover for the coffee table. The tradition is that the children get to put it out on the day that we celebrate Thanksgiving...usually the Saturday after Thanksgiving Day. The tradition is for all the grandchildren to be here so they can all help set it up. So it was a big help for him to find those boxes. One thing ready for our family Thanksgiving celebration! After he found those three boxes, he meticulously put all the boxes back that we had to get out to get to the nativity boxes. He took the three boxes and I took the table cover down to the living room and stacked them up against the wall awaiting next Saturday's gathering of family. At that point I had a MARVELOUS idea...and he willingly went along with it...organize the toy closet that is under the stairs. He hardly ever gets anything out from there any more so it is hardly fair to ask him to clean up his siblings mess...but...he was willing to meet the challenge. Graham loves to organize...what a wonderful characteristic! So he crawled into the closet and pulled things out from the center that had just been piled in there and I started organizing the things on the floor in the living room by putting things together that go together. And, then I handed them to him and he slid them into place. We made quick work of that. So...a nice clean toy closet...for how long?!? Then we sat down and read out loud from the book that we are reading during his reading time with me. So a productive evening! He stayed at our house till the rest of his family returned just a little while ago from a birthday party. I'm off to read one of the books that I have going at the moment...the e-book...so I can get it finished before it is taken back into cyberspace by the e-book library.
Graham and family had special visitors today...the missionary family they visited and worked with while they were in Uganda last year. Just think...the children have now played at each others' houses...on two different continents!
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