Today was good - a slow start, a slow middle and a slow end. Everyone was pretty much on their best behavior today (baby daughter had a couple of moments, but nothing big).
I made pancakes for breakfast and we had dip with Wheat Thins for lunch. Yes dip - Asparagus Dip - it had a vegetable, a protein (cheese) and carbohydrates (Wheat Thins). The kids played well outside and rode their bikes. I took some pictures while they rode. The girls were wearing their bathing suits underneath their pants - they looked ridiculous and the pictures will be highly treasured as they get older.
I went down the street and gathered some Kudzu for our Christmas wreath. This all started last year when I "built" our Christmas tree out of sticks gathered from the yard on Christmas Eve. Anyone who knows me knows how much I dislike Christmas trimmings. This dislike usually gets interpreted as a dislike for Christmas - I don't really dislike Christmas, just the fake commercial nature of Christmas. I especially dislike Santa Claus (and we have not perpetuated this myth on our children).
When you really boil it all down, Christmas is a commercial holiday / season. Even Christians for the most part buy into the sentimentality of Christmas without much thought about the miracle of the virgin birth.
Anyway, last year I "built" our tree - this was it:
I think it turned out pretty good (in a really cheap, thrown together way). Well, I was so pleased with the result that I have decided to "build" another tree this year and make it really impressive. I am also making our wreathes out of wisteria vines and Kudzu vines. I twisted the kudzu vines around a bucket to make a wreath and it is drying in the shed. I think my wife (BJS) thinks I'm a little off. I'll give updates.
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