"I'll be home for Christmas Hanukah"

I lit the Hanukkah candles last night. Good times. I'm not sure when we will play dreidel...probably on Thursday, when we will also consume many plates of latkes. We're doing our Christmas stuff on Thursday as well, since my brother is leaving on Friday to go spend Christmas with his girlfriend.

So here I am in sunny, warm Minnesota. I mean, Minnesota. We have no snow at all on the ground. Completely bare. Feh, I say.

I made the trip from KC to the Twin Cities in a little over seven hours. I didn't speed; there just wasn't any traffic, and I only stopped twice. I dropped my stuff off at the house, said hello to Rebecca, who's sick, and then drove over to my other sister's band concert. Shannon did very well. This is her last year, which makes her quite happy. I wonder if she will want to keep the saxophone after she is done. I'm not sure what I would do with it, though...goodness knows I'd have to seriously woodshed before I could ever play in public again.

Anyway, I am enjoying being home with my family. My parents and I sat up and talked last night. They asked lots of questions about what I do at Forerunner Books. I gave them a copy of Pursuit of the Holy. Hope they enjoy it. (I'm hoping my mom will point out any copyediting errors I missed. I'm also hoping I didn't miss many. :-D)

Off to do some holiday shopping. Yes, I am a procrastinator. It's my specialty.