Yesterday was a busy day—Jonathan, Dale, Brian, & Joy to gymnastics and then to Barnes & Noble for escalator riding, snacks in the cafe, and storytime, while I went to mail birthday presents to Matthew & Courtney for their upcoming 18th and a Christmas present to my Grama Sprong in Kansas.
We all met up at the Bob Bullock Museum for lunch and the Border Radio performance connected with the Country Music Exhibit that’s currently on. The show was great—they’re doing it the last time on 4 January, and I recommend it—and Jonathan quite enjoyed it. He quickly picked up laughing at the jokes, and he clapped on the beat to the songs with everybody. Even the yodeling in one song was fun to hear! I think nearly all music is fun to hear live.
After that we finally got our tree from Papa Noel, as we have done for at least the last three years. It’s a perfect size for our living room and holds our ornaments nicely. One thing new I used this year are tree clips to hold the light strings in place. I got two boxes of them from The Famous Christmas Store on I-35 in Austin, and boy I wish I had gotten two more! They work great for keeping the cords down and out of sight.
Today is a gray rainy day, so we went to two model homes to take Brian & Joy around, and to look for ourselves as well at what buying a new house might be like. Then we had a wonderful coffee at Texpresso and felt all cozy with our hot drinks and cookies and walnut scones.
Dale is busy with his parents getting them to record commentary over old 8mm footage that Brian had shot lo these many years ago. He’s going to get about 30 mins worth and make a DVD out of it. If it works out well, we may try to do the same thing with some of the old Karl family footage. Anyone interested in that?
Posted by elizabeth at December 8, 2002 09:01 PMSounds like a grand idea. Maybe we can put it on the website too...someday.
Posted by: Meredith on December 12, 2002 06:41 PM