Christmas Time is Drawing Near

Well...... I've been a bit swamped the past week or so.

Last week I was immersed in Waco Christmas Celebration (WCC). WCC is an annual Christmas pageant produced by our church, Columbus Avenue Baptist Church. This year I headed up stage crew for stage left. It's a lot of work, but I think it is a lot of fun. Seeing the kids in their costumes and working in a small group within a larger context brings some camaraderie, sense of purpose, and annual tradition (or ritual) to life. That's all good.

I haven't had as much time to read this past week, but I have read little snippets of the Carter book and little bits of the Brock book that I've been working on for awhile. I'll make some more progress in the next week.

Next week our family is going to New York for a Christmas-time vacation. We've never done anything like this at this time of year so we're looking forward to it. I'm sure we'll do all the "touristy" things - tours, pictures, shows, shopping, etc. I sent a note to Comedy Central to see if we could sit in while they produced the Daily Show, but we've never heard back from them. That's a little disappointing. Still the trip ought to be fun.

Well, we're off to dinner tonight and then maybe I'll help get the Christmas cards finished up. If I procrastinate on that long enough, my wife will get them all done.....

If I don't get back to the blog in the next week or so because of vacation and whatnot, everyone have a Merry Christmas!