No, it’s not a list of things I want. It’s a list of things I think.
- Christmas is a lot and yet just passes by so quickly.
- The magic of Christmas just cannot be replicated as an adult.
- Yeah, seeing Christmas through your kids comes close…but it just isn’t the same as that beautifully innocent time from your youth.
- I went shopping for a gift for the family, kind of an annual “bonus” gift outside of their lists, with some money in my pocket. I came up with nothing.
- We are so blessed that there really isn’t anything we don’t have.
- New windows, new tile in the kitchen, leveling the foundation that is sloping are things I can’t buy and wrap.
- I have recently gone over notes from some training that said you shouldn’t tell your kids what to say in certain circumstances.
- The reason is that they will say what they’ll say (not what you said to say) and then feel shame for not saying what you said to say.
- I told Rachel about this and she said, “Well, I sure don’t do that well.”
- We love to laugh at ourselves.
- I am so excited to prepare a leg of lamb and a rib roast for Christmas.
- I really miss hanging out with my best friend from high school Dan Leppold.
- Kodak is so popular in today’s hip hop culture.
- I really, really, really, don’t get it.
- If you’re thinking about camera’s, you won’t get it either. Kodak is a dude.
- I am so excited about the podcast that Brian Herr, Eric Hammond and I are doing called Lunchtime in Rome.
- I am so blessed to have friends like that and it makes me sad that a lot of people don’t.
- I laugh at how there are some things in my kitchen that I never use yet I give them prominent space.
- There are some things that I have relegated to lessor spaces (or even the downstairs pantry) but others remain (and need to be moved).
- I’m really looking forward to having the kids home from school.
- I’m also looking forward to them going back…it’s a cycle.
- When I preach on Christmas Eve it’s always the toughest sermon of the year.
- I have guessed that it’s because there are so many visitors who don’t know how to handle listening to me (I’m kind of a different Pastor).
- It’s also because it’s at night, dark, cozy, and after a nice Christmas Eve dinner.
- I think the fact that Christmas doesn’t come at the half way point in the school year makes the rest of the year draaaaaaag on.
- I wonder if someday I’ll start a “pop up” dinner club.
- There’s no way I’ll ever open up my own diner but maybe…just maybe.
- This is the last year for the ginger bread house display at PPG Place in Pittsburgh. It’s always great looking for the one made for Trey.