Whew! Look at me all caught up! Just in time for the New Year!
When we last left off, I was at the Farm with my nephews.
Christmas Eve I got up bright and early again to get ready to head back to town to serve at my churches Christmas Eve Services. I was in charge of leading guest services for both services. I also had to run to both of our local police depts before church to drop off the cards my students had decorated for them and the treats i had made. That is possibly my favorite Christmas eve tradition! I love surprising them and how excited they get. Doing something nice for someone, when they don't expect it, is just really fun!
I made my deliveries and then arrived early at church. I waited by the fireplace chatting and got congratulated on my recent engagement by Pastor Dave. Except i'm not engaged. Or even dating. HA! We were both confused, but it became the joke of the evening. Bless his heart, he was excited for me. I would be too! HA HA HA!
It was controlled chaos. Or maybe just chaos. But in a fun way! By the time the second service rolled around I had hit my groove and felt like I knew somewhat what I was doing. It helped the second service had 100 less people than the first :) My friend Laura came to serve for that second service so of course we had to take a selfie.
Families were getting their pictures taken by the tree. Me? Selfie alone. Hashtag Single. Hashtag Too bad I'm not engaged. HA!
I popped my contacts out, and put my glasses on, loaded up my cup of apple cider and hit the road back home to the farm!
The one picture I took of myself on Christmas Day. Y'all I was tired. And later that evening I found out why I was tired when I realized I was getting a cold. Ugh. My Mom woke up Christmas morning getting her own cold, and I followed in her footsteps hours later.
Dad read Luke 2 again, although he left out poor Simeon, we prayed and then opened gifts!
I made my way back to Lafayette the next day and was very happy I had already taken my Christmas stuff down since all I wanted to do was lay on the couch and be miserable!
Later that week I made my way over to UC to discover that I had the trifecta of germs and an ear infection to go along with everything.
I spent the rest of Christmas week on the couch and in bed. I had to cancel my plans to celebrate with Audra, which really made me sad. No bueno to being sick.
After days of being sick and miserable I really wanted to go to church on Sunday but wasn't sure if I would feel well enough to go and didn't want to spread germs. But I woke up a half hour before my alarm was set to go off, bright eyed and bushy tailed! The medicine was finally kicking in!!! YAY!!
I went to church and got to hear Pastor Dave preach, which was exciting since it's usually Pastor Steve on the big screen. Then I came home and proceeded to start cleaning my extremely messy house. It was terrible. But I made a huge dent on cleaning and organizing. Even though my knee was killing me at the end of the day, it was worth it!
Also, My Dad loves NCIS and we watched it pretty much everytime he had the TV on at the farm. So what did I watch on Netflix while I was having lunch Sunday? Yup, NCIS!
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