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| dad & syd |
ONE MORE DAY!!
I'm so excited for Christmas. It's not the gift exchange part I'm most anticipating, but the fact that we have a gorgeous home this year, and tomorrow, we're going to pack it full of some of our family and close friends. I know what it's like to spend the holiday away from family, so I feel honored that some of our friends and fellow military families are going to be here tomorrow in lieu of traveling far out of the state to see theirs.
Today was beautiful. We were able to spend breakfast together as a family before Heidi and Paul headed out to head to Kansas to see Paul's family. Mom and I made a trip to the grocery store to get ready for tomorrow, and did some last, last minute shopping.
When we got back to the house, I let my parents talk me into something I nearly regretted. When I was a kid, my parents were just like so many other parents in history who were dedicated to capturing every available memory on video. It doesn't sound that bad now, but I'd both forgotten how awkward I looked in my pre-teen years, and that I was absolutely a bit crazy. Since the original videos were trapped inside a little 2x2" black cassette, they'd been laying dormant for the last 15 or so years in a box under my parents' television. As it turns out, my mom had them transferred recently onto DVD's, making for both instant and easy access.
Greaaaaat........
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| Christmas present from my mom to us: handmade watercolor portrayal of family, faith, and future. |
So they thought they'd bring them and we'd watch. I chose one that I thought would provide the least amount of embarrassment for me, and we popped it in. I was flashed back to Christmas 1994: I was 10. That meant I was still in my super-curly hair stage, but moreso had gone with a short haircut. I looked like a poodle. Couple that with goofy kid behavior and and you've got me, fresh out of bed on Christmas day squeeling over a remote-controlled Barbie car. Haha.
Fast forward to the next set of transferred clips, a few years later. I was 13, and just as every bit silly, only this time wtih braces, complete with mult-colored neon rubber bands. Oh, man. I was cool.
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| sydni setting the table for dinner! |
That's how we spent our day. Revealing as those home videos may have been, it was quality time spent with my family. Besides, one day down the road, I'll have the same type of videographic footage with which I will thoroughly embarrass Sydni and any other children who wind up in the perhaps unfortunate grasp of my creative parental endeavors. Haha.
I sang a song by MercyMe for the Christmas Eve service at church, titled Joseph's Lullaby. It's a really beautiful song, and I'd like to say that I thought of singing it on my own, but I have to lend the credit to Jarod for suggesting this one. It went off with minimal pitch issue, even though it was a bit of a range stretch for me.
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| an early Christmas present for sydni! |
We ended the evening by opening one gift; that was the custom in my house growing up and it continues here :).
Santa's coming tonight, if you didn't hear ;)
xo | cmd
