Tagged...I'm it!

Thanks Trina for giving an excuse to post. I know you can't wait to read this so I will delay no further.

8 favorite t.v. shows
1. Gilmore Girls
2. So you think you can dance
3. House
4. Psyche
5. Amazing Race
That's about all that occupies my DVR

8 books I recommend...this will be short
1. Anything Mary Higgins Clark I'm a sucker for a good clean strangling at 1:00 a.m.
2. A heart like His...Virginia Pearce
3. To Kill a Mockingbird...I know sophomore reading but I still loved it.
4. I'm out

8 things that happened yesterday
1. Called to be the new Activity Day leader...in my last three callings I have had to follow Kay, Sunni and Kristi...man these shoes have been hard to fill
2. listened to two 13 year old boys on violin and piano play my favorite christmas song...The First Noel
3. Sang O holy night in church with a 13 year old solo girl...great job!
4. Sang in the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater...always a joy
5. Listened to my daughter sing with children's chorus...fabulous...really!
6. Sang with my daughter in the Craterian
7. Listened and sang with a harp...cool!
8. Attended a Feast of Singing at United First Methodist and listened to my 13 year old son sing with the bell choir....A joyous day indead!

8 things to look forward to
1. Hello... Christmas
2. My White Christmas/It's a Wonderful Life traditional Christmas Eve viewing
3. Christmas Eve in general...ahhh the suspense...beats the let down after Christmas anyday
4. This week in a half that has few obligations
5. After Christmas trip to Utah...I love my family
Those are enough to fill me

8 things on my wish list
1. Steam mop hopefully on Santa's sleigh
2. gloves...the fun colorful kind
3. new phone...can you see the tears falling...my poor new phone went for a swim in the washing machine
4. gormet hot chocolate
5. White Christmas...oh wait I'm driving to Utah the next day...today counts!!!
6. carolers

8 things I love about winter
1. snow!!!
2. mittens
3. warm, fun socks
4. hot chocolate
5. movie nights
6. scarves
7. bright colors
8. fun jammies

8 people to tag
merry christmas to all my loved ones...feel free to tag yourself if you want

Daisy

Well, we did it. We got a dog, something I never thought I would do. The girls love her and she's actually a pretty good puppy. She understands a few commands already. "Come" is her sure thing command. I called my sister-in-law for a crash coarse in training. She's got mad skills with dogs, and was a big help.

Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht

One of my favorite Christmas albums as a child (okay who am I foolin' it still is a fav) was Muppet's Christmas. I loved when John Denver got quiet and told the story of Franz Gruber and Joseph Mohr and how Silent Night came to be. The rough translation of this plaque is "In this house lived from 1817-1819 auxiliary priests Joseph Mohr (1792-1848). Here created in the year 1818 the text of the Christmas Carol Quiet Night Holy Night. When Shane surprised me for Christmas with the Chorale trip to Europe he began to tell me all the places we would get to go. Oberndorn Austria was the one I was most excited about.

I remember a talk given by Pres. Faust several years ago in which he said "In the war in which my father served on the western front, in the stillness of Christmas Eve there wafted over the trenches to the ears of the American soldiers the soft sound of the voices of their enemy singing, “Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht” (“Silent night! Holy night”; Hymns, no. 204). Their enemy in turn could hear the American soldiers singing, “Peace on earth, goodwill to men” (“Far, Far Away on Judea’s Plains,” Hymns, no. 212).

Twenty years later, in the war in which I served, the same area and the same enemies were involved. Although I did not serve on the western European front, on Christmas Eve the English and American soldiers could hear the Germans sing, “Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,” and the Germans could hear the Americans sing, “Peace on earth, goodwill to men.” This song was able to bring peace if only for a day. Each Christmas since Europe when I hear this beloved carol a well of emotion washes over me as I think of this powerful song written in a tiny church by two humble men on a quiet Christmas Eve.

Randomness

I know it has been forever. I apologize to the two people who follow my blog. Here is the fourth generation of Thanksgiving eve bread brakers for stuffing. I used to love this job as a child because I pretended it was the sacrament (a titch sacrilidge I know) My girls had so much fun they wanted to do more and more. Grandma would have been so proud.

I was near our Dark Hollow home the other day doing a delivery and I had to capture a picture of Dad's Liquid Ambers. They were the prettiest thing about the now unattended yard. A wave of nostalgia overcame me.

You asked for a "Halley", here you go. She was sitting on neighbor Tim's driveway and I though "Oh how sweet, let me take a picture." Click... "Come on in Halley"...."I can't....I pooped my pants".....Happy feeling gone.