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We took down our Christmas decorations, stripped the Christmas tree of ornaments, and housed everything back into the appropriate boxes. Back into the rafters they go until next year.
It feels even more final when Elliot packed up all his things and went back to school. My reservations about having him at home were gone…
We called 2 different Best Buy stores to ask for availability of Nintendogs for Amy’s Nintendo DS (She has a Christmas gift card).
I was on hold for 20 minutes with the store in West Covina before someone answered the phone. They didn’t have it.
The store in City of Industry did not answer at…
It was recently brought to my attention that an off-the-cuff remark I made in July about a solar car was totally off base.
I apologize to the Saint Thomas Academy for the comment that assumed a big budget for their magnificent car, suggesting that it gave them an unfair advantage in the solar car race.…
For the first time in the history of the Lee’s, Mike and Elliot watched an entire football game on TV!
Growing up I watched some sports with my brother, but Mike and Elliot did not even know the basic rules of football. Since Elliot started school at USC, we occasionally watched a bit of the games.
After a week of deliciously sleeping in, I woke to the alarm at 6:20am to get Audrey for school.
Then I climbed back into bed and slept till 10am. But it was not a peaceful sleep. I had several very frustrating dreams, dreams that make you scream, yet in the dream you are voiceless.
We just came back from dinner with several families of our church. Sharing a meal together brings people together in a special way. It is these times of sharing that I appreciate our church.
We go to a small church. Sometimes it seems like we take 2 steps forward and 3 steps back! Our church facility needs renovating and could use a touch of class. Activities are not coordinated well. Programs could be better organized.
2006!
What comes to mind when you think of the start of a New Year?
That’s right, new year resolutions.
Here are mine:
1. Be able to make a simple website and edit my KatyLee.com site.
I know I had said this before, but it wasn’t in the form of a new year resolution. Now that it is, perhaps it will help me to be more focused in my efforts.
The power of a side comment made to me:
When I was in my 20’s, I was at a friend’s house, finishing a glass of water. I was just about to rinse out the glass at the sink when my friend’s mother said, “I don’t understand why people rinse a glass without scrubbing the rim of the glass. Rinsing the inside of the glass doesn’t clean the dirtiest part where the lips touched the glass.”
My former BSF teaching leader Dottie liked to use the word perservere. I didn’t understand why she said it so often.
Perserverance is not a word you think about or define. It’s a concept you have to experience. My children are teaching me what it looks like.
On Christmas day, I set the alarm for Amy at 6:50am. The alarm was for her because she would be motivated enough not to go back to sleep. She woke everyone up and we had fun open our presents one by one.
Hightlights: Elliot gave everyone a souvenir USC sugar packet; probably the last year…