Two inches of beautiful snow had fallen during the night.
But have no fear! The stores were ready with their many different types of sleds; everything from the old-fashion wooden ones to spiffy, ultra-modern plastic seats that hold nothing more than a bottom and two feet. Fortunately, I own a pair of ski pants that would keep me warm while sledding. Unfortunately, we don't live near a hill. I remember when Glenn and I were first married and living on the seminary campus, we woke to about 6 inches of snow one morning. We learned that poor seminary students "borrow" the plastic trays from the cafeteria to use as sleds. It works pretty well, if your bottom isn't bigger than 12" x 18"!
Saci loves the snow, but doesn't like the draft in the mud room, so every so often she would step inside the house to see if we had changed our mind about letting her in. Her family returns to Budapest tomorrow so we will have to say good-bye to her! She's been a great dog!
Glenn "babysits" the older Corder children...
While I babysit Rachel!
In addition to the exciting birth of baby Rachel, we've been able to spend some time with Nancy who came for knee surgery. After getting dressed in her stylish hospital gown, one of the orderlies needing to get the surgical room ready came in and and asked her if surgery would be on her left leg. We all kinda panicked!
So we decided to mark her left leg just to make sure there wasn't any doubt. NEM! means NO! Her surgeon and the nurses all got a kick out of it, as did the rest of us!
She was in and out of surgery within an hour, and two hours later was eating a hamburger from Burger King! Everything went well with the surgery and she is recovering nicely.
Today we said good-bye to the Corder family as they returned to their country of service. We have grown so close to them that it was difficult to say good-bye. I told Nancy as the Corders pulled out of the parking lot, that saying good-bye to folks that we'd gotten to know so well is the hardest part of our job. We will miss them!
And for those of you who know how much I love dishes (Kari, Kate, Kristin, Donna, Diane), I hope you noticed my Christmas dishes and goblets. When I started setting the table for this meal, which was on December 1, and pulled out my small amount of Christmas dishes, I grieved a little for all the dishes and things I gave away or sold before coming. Same thing at Thanksgiving! I kept thinking, "You know, a year ago I had ..." Oh, well.
Tomorrow starts the real countdown until we fly to America. 5-4-3-2-1! We leave here on Friday morning, and will arrive in Richmond, Virginia that evening. Saturday, we are meeting up with the ISC couple that will be coming in April as host/hostess of the Eden House for two years. (They live about 2 hours from Richmond.) On Sunday, we will pick up Mary and Alvin Doyle, our co-workers, at the Richmond airport. Mary and Alvin will be attending the Member Care conference with us next week. It will be good to see them again. They return to Budapest on January 10th.
After the conference, we will spend one night in Atlanta before heading up to Tennessee to visit with Chris and Kate for a few days. Kari and Jonathan arrive in Atlanta on December 21st. We hope we get to see a lot of our friends during the short time we are in the Atlanta area! I'm sure the time will fly by all too quickly.
Szia!
1 comment:
Thanks for the update! You guys have gotten way more snow than us already - that is to say, some. But I'll take the 40 degree days we've been having over snow... for now.
See you soon!
Love, K
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