White Christmas?

We're getting more snow today, enough to shovel. We may get more as the week progresses. It's supposed to warm up toward the end of the week, though, so we may lose it all again. That seems to be the case around here. We do get cold spells where it stays below freezing all day, but we seldom get snow during those times. When the weather is right for snow, it's also just flirting with the freezing point most of the time.

We had a nice weekend, though. Saturday morning our church had a Christmas party. They usually have these sorts of things in the evening when our kids are going to bed, so we don't often go. This was a much better time for us, and it was a nice party. In the afternoon we had some friends come over with their kids and have a big gingerbread house assembly party. Nothing major, just the graham cracker with gobs-o-candy variety, wherein more candy gets into the kids than onto the houses, but it was fun. There were some pretty artistic renderings, too. I have to admit to feeling a certain surge of creativity, even though I was primarily helping my son.

It was by far the biggest event we've hosted in our new house to date, and it accommodated it admirably. The kids did pretty well, too. Walter was a little wild, but he was already having a terrible day, after waking up way too early (and too often) that morning. But we survived it all, and had a pretty good Sunday to boot.

I went Christmas shopping with my daughter on Saturday afternoon. We went to a local shopping center to avoid the mail, and even then we spent about as much time getting into and out of the parking lot as we spent in the store shopping--and that's even with Emma taking time to read every book in the kids' aisle. I hate shopping, and I hate crowds. It's so nice that we have one day each year to remind me of that.