A Christmas Carol Hodgepodge

Hodgepodge Fun!

1. What title would you give this current chapter of your life?

A Change of Command

2. December 6 is National Microwave Oven Day. Who knew? Besides popcorn and coffee reheats, what's the most common thing you microwave? 

Melting butter or heating occasional leftovers

Could you get along without a microwave? Probably.

3. If you could insert yourself into any Christmas carol and experience the lyrics in real life, which Christmas carol lyric would you choose and why?

Silent Night. How wonderful it would be to kneel by the manger where Jesus lay with Mary watching over Him tenderly as the glory streamed from heaven and experience the peace that glorious night. To see the shepherds there still in awe of the angels they had seen in the sky announcing a Savior had been born and for peace on earth, good will to men. His birth, the dawn of redeeming grace. Those are the thoughts from the song, but I wonder what it was really like that night for Mary and Joseph. 

I know it didn't quite look like this that night, but this is what it looks like in one of my little corners. 

4. Describe the most beautiful drive you've ever taken. 

Through Switzerland and up to the Matterhorn ... I think. 

5. What's something on your Christmas list this year? (an actual list or figuratively speaking, either one)

I really don't have a list. I have everything I need. If I did have a list, it would be for a nice camera and someone to teach me how to use it. 

Figuratively speaking, it would just blow me away to wake up Christmas morning and see the news headlines containing statements that haters had come to have a change of heart. They decided let's all work together and bring the word "united" back to our states again here in America. 

6. Insert your own random thought here.

I'm kinda blah today. But I've taken some really pretty drives through some great scenery in Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, the Rocky Mountains, Canada, New England, Italy, Hawaii and Israel. I enjoy driving through our neighborhood right now and seeing the Fall colors. So much beauty in God's creation. 

We attended a little concert at Kate's school this evening to see her sing with the chorus. It was so sweet to hear them sing Christmas carols and not just secular songs, but Silent Night and a Jewish song as well. They sang the verse of Silent Night and then did the song in sign language. 

Kate, front row, second from the right

I don't need anything for Christmas. My cup overflows!