My scheduled Christmas activities wrapped up a couple of hours ago. Vann, Benjamin and Kate were here. Bentleys, Lowrys, Sparkmans, Darnalls, Bynums and a Webber gathered at L.D. and Rachel's house. Matt and Mary Ellen had some lame excuse about not being able to get here from Tanzania, but we missed them anyway. There was soup and chili and desserts. There was singing around the piano. Yes, we really do that. There were small children running laps from the living room to the dining room to the living room.
This year, we drew names again. But instead of gifts like we had given in the past, each person was to think about the name he or she had drawn and make a donation to a charity in honor of that person. We were supposed to do a creative presentation of the gift when we gathered in the living room. We broke up the presentations to the charities with the normal gifts to the children (we are not that crazy). It was all fun and the presentation of the charitable gifts to one another made for a different kind of Christmas conversation. Phillip made a contribution in my honor to the Hope Center, which he and Emily acted out in Charades. Made it twice as good. And it all ended with Scrabble, which also ended to my liking.
Wish you had been there.
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