Advent

This year our Advent study will begin on Mondays instead of the Advent Sunday that churches traditionally use. Nap-time for Luci takes precedence on Sundays. We light candles in our Advent wreath, sing songs, and have a Bible study. Today the kids got a little kooky when Bryan started his song (they all get to choose one from our little carol booklets--bought way back in 1997! I do goofy things like writing dates in the books I buy). Bryan got up to lead his song and JT and Luci decided it looked like too much fun to miss.
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John called...today was "shot day." Small pox and anthrax were just two of the inoculations. Sometimes you just don't wanna know the details.

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A chaplain also gave lectures to the troops. It was stuff like how to make sure the folks at home know you love them, and how to react when the wife calls and says there's trouble in the back yard with the septic tank. It was reassuring to know that we (John and I) are doing what the experts say we should do for each other and for the children. It was funny, too, because during John's first deployment the call was not about the septic tank and the backyard. It was about the septic tank backing up into the basement! (Every once in a while John will still ask where something is that got destroyed in "the flood." Since he missed it, he never did catch on to just how awful and devastating that was!)