This is one of those evenings where I open the computer and think “what in the world am I going to write for three paragraphs?” Sometimes things just aren’t as obvious. This morning I took the boys to school and then spent some time cleaning up in the kitchen. I made breakfast for myself and for my son who was the only one home with me but still asleep. Dad was doing a chapel service farther away.

After cleaning up the kitchen I laid down on the couch. I stayed there for probably two hours and fell asleep. Dad and the boys came home a little after 11. By then I was up again and had straightened up the living room, shaken out the tree skirt, and swept the dust and Christmas tree needles from the floor. I found the Christmas puzzles from last year and moved our card table into the mud room.

Then I drove to spend some time with a pastor’s wife and her children for the afternoon. It was nice to spend some time in their home. I smiled at the overflowing garbage and marks of young ones in every room. Her husband was in and out a few times dutifully busy with all the small town Advent pastor things. Dad and the kids went to church this evening but I decided to rest some more and stay home.