One of the boys came and told me that he desperately needed something to eat. It was lunchtime and he hadn’t eaten very much for breakfast. So once everything was loaded up and unpacked I heated up some leftover from the soup we had Thursday, adding some of the leftover mashed potatoes to make it heartier for him, and we ate lunch all together in the living room. Zorro was there too on his blanket by the sliding door.

Dad had some good ideas on what to do for Advent this year. He had the idea to have screen free evenings in the basement by the fire. We can play board games, or read, or do some readings down there. I asked if this meant I couldn’t blog in the evening and he said we could maybe make some timed exceptions. He said too we could spent time cleaning and getting it ready for the kids to be down there during Christmastime.

I liked all of these ideas. I’m seeing Christmas things around and am nowhere even near there yet. I said to Christmas, “You know, you are going to have to wait. I am not going to jump right into you.” Not because I’m some kind of Advent purist but because it doesn’t feel time yet. It has to feel right before you take out the boxes. This year has truly gone by so fast it hardly seems time for December to be here but the sky is still turning.