Enumerated Update

Hello and happy Monday!  How was your weekend? 

Here's where we are:

1)  Procrastination:  I have three pressing items on my to-do list but cannot seem to make myself tackle them. 

2)  Crazy World of George:  George has developed a new obsession over the last few days.  He loves spoons!  He will go pull on the silverware drawer and say, "'Poon! 'Poon!  Hap! Hap 'poon!"  "Hap" means help.  The longer he has to wait (and let's face it, it took me a while to figure out what he wanted the first couple of times) the more frantic he becomes.  Also, we are finding spoons all over the house. 

3)  Tree:  Our main tree is finally up.  See above photo.  Ok.  Just kidding.  That's not really our tree.  Skip took that photo last week in Boston.

4)  Rain:  If you are local, you enjoyed tremendous rain all last night and this morning.  William George and I decided to crank up the music while we made all of the beds this morning for some rainy day fun.  I took some video of George dancing to Sexyback, and I will try to update later. 

Please forget the admission of Justin Timberlake on our iPods.  It's definitely not mine.

5)  Related:  Why is it that Chris Robinson from the Black Crows universally makes us feel like we could (in some alternate universe with perfect acoustic conditions) sing, whereas John Lennon and Paul McCartney makes us feel as if we emphatically cannot (Not even a little bit. Ever.).

6)  Building Up/Tearing Down:  A big lesson we have been working on with the girls builds on one of their Bible verses from last fall.  Whenever they speak to one another or others, we ask them to consider whether their words build the recipient of those words up, or do they serve to hurt the person?  Do they tear the person down?  We run almost everything they say through that filter.  As can be expected, a lot of the newer introductions into their language are filtered out -- for tearing down.

Extrapolating that filter to the world at large makes me want to disallow much of what I read and hear.  Radio personalities contacting hospitals for pranks?  No.  Politicians bickering endlessly?  No.  Sensationalistic stories being passed off as journalism?  No. 

No, no and no. 

7)  Christmas:  I am 80% finished with shopping, but it is crunch time, with 14 days remaining.  How are you coming along? 

That sums it up.

What is happening with you?