Merry Christmas

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It's Christmas Eve which means our family has been celebrating Christmas.  We started with putting the tree up and getting it decorated.  I went to church to direct the youth choir who sang Once in Royal David's City, and to sing in an ensemble (I think this has been my singing-est Christmas in years!) before returning home to continue our festivities.

The presents are opened.  The fondue is finished.  The dishwasher is running.  The kids have retired to the upstairs to collaborate on a Minecraft world.  In Minecraft, as in life, they each have their skills and interests and deploy those skills in a cooperative effort over the Christmas holiday when both have extra time to just hang out...and play Minecraft.  Joerg is checking out what the kids are up to (I think a heard him explaining what a LAN is).  And I am ordering some supplies for next year while the list is fresh in my mind.  Given the spate of "supply chain issues" we have had recently, perhaps if I order now it will arrive in time for next Christmas.  (queue eye roll)

Whatever you are doing with your Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we hope you are well and find joy in this holiday season.  Merry Christmas.

Joerg, Katherine, Erika, and Patrick

And there were, in the same country, shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.  And the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were afraid.

And the angel said to them, “fear not, for, behold, I bring you good tidings and great joy, which shall be to all people.  For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.  And this shall be a sign to you, you shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.”

And suddenly there was, with the angel, a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, “glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men”.

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