First Snow of the Season!

"Hey Trevor..." "What....?" "Nothing..I just wanted you to look at the camera."

The "snowman" doesn't appear to be very large, or snowy-white.

Trevor, discovering that looking into the wind is not always a good idea.

Attempts at making snow angles met with mixed results...

So yes, it wasn't a large snowfall, but it was enough to cancel church. Our visiting speaker from Dubuque contacted us to say they had left the city but turned around after the first 30 minutes of the drive took over an hour. Roads were very slippery.

In other seasonal news, the Christmas decorations are all up except for one last thing that I just remembered...

Trevor is back at the piano playing his version of "Carol of the Bells"....you know, the one that never stops.

The other kids are amusing themselves by sitting in the dark living room, repeating quotes from every single movie they've ever seen. And laughing uproariously at their witty renditions.

I've tried to start the annual Christmas letter but haven't gotten much written, as of yet. Maybe I'll scale it way down and squeeze everyone onto one page. I hate to do that because it feels like quitting, so we'll see if anything remotely inspirational comes to mind.

Perhaps the most startling occurrence of late was the cleaning of my desk (and surrounding area) yesterday. It is amazing. I'm still astounded when I walk into the room and see the brown surface of the fake-oak desktop. You would think this newly discovered order would give rise to letter-writing, but perhaps I only cleaned off my desk to postpone this yearly task.... It's a delicate project, coming up with something interesting yet not outrageously exaggerated.

Ooo, I just came up with an idea....gotta go...

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