Christmas was simple and lovely for us. We thoroughly enjoyed a Michael Card benefit concert at the local middle school. The kids sang in a cantata at the Nazarene church so we heard countless rounds of Joy to the World and Go Tell It on the Mountain in preparation (and apparently postperation, as they still sing several verses a day). Kids opened a few gifts from family and sweet friends at church on Christmas Eve, and we sang carols with Dan's family and ate chocolate peanut butter bars (Lance's Christmas request from me). New Year's Eve was also Anna's birthday, and Theresa invited us all over for tacos and gumbo, cake and ice cream (mmm, ice cream: the once near-nightly staple now a very rare treat; though the gumbo was so delicious I barely left room for dessert). Adults played Scrabble while kids and teens half-finished Monopoly, then we united for several rounds of Apples to Apples. We also just finished a brief but delightful visit with our dear friends Ed and Karen who made the monumental trek from Colorado Springs to see our experiment firsthand.
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