We’re going Christmas shopping this morning. As usual, this is my last-minute approach, while Mom already has all her shopping done and delivered (Amazon). When I was a kid, my Dad would take a day to go to ‘town’ with us to find a present for the sibling. We had no money, so he’d give us an allowance for the present, and we’d wander the aisles of K-Mart looking for something that we didn’t know we needed to get for a present… So this brings back good Christmas memories for me, while Mom doesn’t enjoy fighting her way through the crowds, so I let her stay home and have a quiet day alone, which is the real Christmas present :)
We’ve been following the Church’s daily “Light the World” suggested activities for the month of December, although we cheated a bit for the first day of service. This year, I was supposed to find people to put wainscot around the bottom of the main room at the West Piney Girl’s Camp Lodge. We planned for about 8 guys for 4 hours. We worked on it for 12 hours, and didn’t get done, so on the Monday before Thanksgiving, our family went up after work to finish the rail on the top (see pictures). We left at 4:30 pm, and got home at midnight, but we got it done. Mom determined that would be our service. Even so, we helped set up chairs for a funeral on December 1st, so we ‘technically’ met the criteria.
The missionaries are teaching Zaide and Zack Marsden (Brenda Poole’s grandchildren). Francisco Diaz is serving a mission to Las Vegas. We just found our email sent 4 hours ago. Hopefully we get this off in time… but I think we missed you.
Love Dad
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