I posted some items for sale to help add to the Xmas coffers before heading off to help at Bell HIll. I also got the Kerksieck Kristmas shopping done at Safeway, an ice chest in the trunk makes this possible, just like shopping before work in the olden days. I arrived in Sharon's fourth grade classroom before lunch to help the kids roll out gingerbread men for ornaments and for snacking. As the kids jostled to be first, eat dough, and get more than their share, my blood started to boil. I remembered the demand of patience required each day to be in the classroom and teach these needy young ones. Such worthy work, yet so demanding and exacting. I spent an hour singing with the kindergarten classes after lunch, I read them Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear! too. I quickly baked up the gingerbread cookies for snacking, then led the first through fourth kids as we practiced for the singing performance on December 19. We all squeezed into Judy's classroom with the piano. Their sweet faces warmed my heart.
After singing, I took a brisk half hour walk through Condon Park before prayer group time. I found a fir tree arboretum that I'd never seen before. I quickly baked another batch of cookies for Sharon, then darted to Linda's house for prayer. In the morning I had prepared my gift tableau of little sleighs with a snowflake candle. A bed of sugar in a tray looked like a field of snow, and I added part of Isaiah 1:18, "Whiter than snow..." as a reminder of the precious gift of God's Son, Jesus. We jabbered until past 6, I was hungry. Fred heated up our tasty curry leftovers. I didn't have much energy left to do much past putting groceries away.
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