The Weekend Before Christmas!

Wow this weekend has definitely been very eventful:

Friday night I had my nephew and my Mom over and Trish made us all dinner. My nephew stayed the night with me and he is definitely a lot to handle. He is 9 years old and has adhd and does not even like someone suggesting something he needs to do because he is a big boy and he can do it himself or so he told me. I survived through the adventures with my nephew, but ended up with a big headache that turned out to be from sinuses and not from my nephew like I presumed.

Saturday morning Sarah came over at about 11:30 and Sarah and me and Trish baked all day well it seemed like all day...lol. Sarah left at about 3:00pm and me and Trish kept baking until about 4:30. We made every kind of cookie you can think of, fudge, rice krispie treats, brownies, and potato candy. Oh and in case anyone else didn't know, potato candy is really made with potato....lol. Me and Trish had a great time getting to know Sarah better. Our table, counter, and fridge is filled with all kinds of goodies. Me and Trish are making up tins of goodies to give to our families for Christmas. We of course had to sample some for ourselves. We even brought Ray a tin of goodies on Sunday because we heard that he had to sample any baking...lol.

Saturday night I enjoyed the last night of the Nativity. I had invited my friend Melissa to come and bring her 3 kids to see the live nativity several times and she finally did bring them. Melissa's 9 year old Rebekah had asked me what this was all about and why they were there and before I could answer Rebekah her 5 year old sister Charity said, "That's Baby Jesus".

The church Christmas party and ornament exchange was tons of fun. All of the food was delicious, and the ornament exchange was a blast. Who would have thought that a plunger would have been a big hit....lol.

Sunday's message was great! Thanks Ray! The Praise Team did an awesome job! When I got home from church I took almost a 2 hour nap because I had a really bad sinus headache. At 4pm The Smith small group as well as Sarah, Dan, Isaac, Eli, Jen, Travis, and Corey went to sing Christmas carols at the Continental Manor in Blanchester. The message that we were coming was not relayed to the people that were working yesterday; therefore we stood in the middle of each hall and then in front and sang Christmas Carols. We also went into the rooms to hand each resident a homemade gift. My favorite was the resident named Jeremy. Jeremy had a special request and wanted us to sing Amazing Grace. We all seemed to falter a little when it came to singing the words to the 2nd verse, but my Mom remembered all of the words and kept us singing strong. Jeremy was a comedian and had all of us rolling on the floor laughing.....who knew that poop could be so funny.....LOL.

After we went to the nursing home I went home and worked on the scrap book that I am making my Mom for Christmas and Trish helped me wrap some Christmas presents. Thanks Trish!

Now I was hoping that I would only have 2 days of work this week and that I would get to "work from home" on Christmas Eve, but my Boss has Christmas Eve off so I may have to take care of some of her accounts. I am supposed to be off on Friday, but a customer just put a huge all day job request in for Friday. I am trying to get it switched to tomorrow so I am hoping that it will work out and that I will really have the day off on Friday.