Still it lingers

Christmas came and went quickly. Three days of family fun and feasting interwoven with the golden thread of faith. Four of us found ourselves at FGT for their Christmas morning service. Jenn visited her friend Brad's cantata down the road on Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve our immediate family of seven enjoyed an English Christmas dinner replete with turkey and Christmas pudding. Late in the evening we opened gifts and then some stayed up to watch the Brothers Grimm. Christmas Day at 12:30pm we made haste to Gramma and Granpa's for a Mennonite Christmas meal of ham, coteletten, plumi moos, zweiback, potato salad with extended family, seventeen of us this year. We managed to somewhat dent the pile of over 1,000 Christmas cookies gramma made this year while enjoying gramma's favorite movie "It Happens Every Spring." Boxing Day our immediate family went shopping for bargains, found lots, went out to dinner at Kelsey's and then to see Narnia. Tuesday we recuperated from the previous three days! On Wednesday, Paul and I drove Jenn all the way to Toronto to catch her flight to Vancouver. She said she had the best Christmas ever. We miss her already. Graduation can't come soon enough. Jo and Jordan are still here for a few more days. Sadly all the snow has melted except for a remnant where Jenn's snow sofa and snowman were built.