On Our Way To Crazy

Dec 1 – My boss and the guy who gave me my job announced that he was leaving. Good for him, sad for me. It still counts as a good thing if it’s good for someone else, right?
Dec 2 – Fun silly night with the junior high girls.
Dec 3 – A meeting I was pretty scared of turned out to be not so bad.
Dec 4 – Knocked out a ton of my Christmas shopping.
Dec 5 – Family Force Five and Remedy Drive show with the kids. Super fun night.
Dec 6 – Silly lesson based on Elf turned into great discussion with the kids about identity.
Dec 7 – Lovely afternoon at the movies alone with Mr. Fox.
Dec 8 – Hunger Games!
Dec 9 – Played a hilarious round of Things with the band.
Dec 10 – Catching Fire!
Dec 11 – El Tormento at the nativity.
Dec 12 – GPYG Christmas Extravaganza! Six hour service project followed by amazing food and the craziest video scavenger hunt ever.
Dec 13 – Lunch after church with my favorite college girls.
Dec 14 – Made three pies and a huge batch of pumpkin muffins.
Dec 15 – Care group Christmas party where we ate amazing turkey and came home with a sweet plastic sword and an all-weather radio.
Dec 16 – The kids wrapped all the GraceTree gifts beautifully. Or, at least you couldn’t see what they were.
Dec 17 – Dinner with friends and the Andrew Peterson show.
Dec 18 – Random night at home in the middle of the holidays.
Dec 19 – Sushi, Jack White’s record store, Andrew Jackson statue in the freezing cold, Grimey’s with the scary Santa and elf, chicken chili, football and THE COWBOYS BEAT THE SAINTS.
Dec 20 – Super fun Christmas game morning with the kids.
Dec 21 – Actually spent time with my friend across the street instead of just talking about how we should.
Dec 22 – Tamale dinner and green chile sauce drinking challenges.
Dec 23 – Cookie decorating!
Dec 24 – Gift wrapping and farkling and chocolate peanut butter crackers.
Dec 25 – Christmas Day! Cinnamon rolls and snuggies with my parents, gossip at Mamaw’s and a fifty person Christmas extravaganza complete with camouflage blankets, pocket knives and some kind of jalapeno jelly mess.
Dec 26 – Family Christmas with the Maneses. My brother-in-law went to a fancy makeup store and bought me expensive eyeliner. So awesome.
Dec 27 – My Papaw and I smoked everyone else on one hole of Wii golf. We got smoked the rest of the time.
Dec 28 – Girls night with my high school friends. Really good talks. I miss them.
Dec 29 – Super early flight home, nice long nap, movie date with Aaron and George Clooney.
Dec 30 – Fun pizza lunch with the staff.
Dec 31 – Low key New Year’s with good friends, good fajitas and Sam & Dave on vinyl.