This weekend is Christmas (as if you were not aware of that fact). Our house is going to be bustling with plenty of activity. We are blessed to have both my wife’s parents and my parents coming. My wife’s parents will be here Thursday and my parents will be here Friday. It has been years since my children have had both sets of grandparents with them to open presents on Christmas morning and I am positive that it will be great fun for all of us.
I have five days of vacation left to take before the New Year so I am taking next week off. I will be hunting with my dad, son, and father in law on Monday. My dad and I and possibly my son will hunt on Tuesday and a little on Wednesday and all that should be a lot of fun. My brother and his family is coming on Tuesday and so we will enjoy our time together – it is always fun getting together with them. I am blessed and thankful for how God has blessed me with a great family and a great church family.
Something else that I am looking forward to is the candlelight communion Christmas Eve service. We all be able to go together as a family and of course I will be leading it but it will be great to have family there. I am also looking forward to preaching on Sunday Morning with the family all being here. I have a lot to be looking forward to this Christmas season and praying that Christ is center of it all.
What are your Christmas plans?
Side note – I will not blog after Thursday until the new Year.
My oldest daughter got in last night from Knoxville and on thursday we will be heading to my sister-in-law’s in Sandusky, OH to spend the night. Early Friday morning we will be taking off for my grandson’s (& his parents) house where we will spend the day and Christmas. Sunday after worship we will head back to Sandusky to take her home and then Monday head back here. Lots of driving but you do what you gotta do to see family. Hope you, Wendy, McKayla and Luke have a phenomenal Christmas with the whole family. Sounds awesome! See you when you get back.
We are just gonna hang out here in Midland. We had considered going to St. Louis, but then my dad just accepted a new church in West Virginia and plus my brother is getting married in January, so I need to save the chedder.
I’ll be here in south Florida. My parents live by so I’ll spend Christmas Eve (Nochebuena) with them. We’ll probably go to Christmas Eve service at their church, have dinner at their house and then open presents (we have no little ones).
Have a blessed time with your family, Jim!
It’ll be a relatively quiet Christmas for us. A couple of small gatherings with family and friends. Peaceful. Wishing you and your family all the best, Jim!