A break after Christmas events

All of the Christmas festivities have come to a halt. Visitors, the wedding, Christmas presents and such have all turned into photos and memories. In one way we feel like a person who has just roller skated for hours. You take off your skates and still feel as if your feet are on wheels for the first several minutes. We have several weeks "break" until the hustle begins again. The next major event is the New Year’s Eve service scheduled for tomorrow evening. The church in years past has had an all night service lasting till 6:00 a.m. This year they decided to have a service from 10:00 p.m. till midnight.

Ryan is as busy as they come. Now almost 15 months old, he is practicing up for the two’s. Today he got another turn at playing in the potty, tasted laundry detergent, and nearly pulled a cup of water off the table. I caught it just in time. He enjoys crawling up on the back of the couch to look out the window - something Brandon delighted in around the same age as Ryan. Of course, who doesn’t enjoy looking at all of the sights of the street out front - the old clunker cars that look like they belong in a junkyard, the trotting of the horses as they pull wagons behind them, the loud boisterous motorcycles, the many people that stroll by, and the old scruffy dogs that pass by. There is never a dull moment on our street. One can usually enjoy about 30 seconds of complete silence a day. But you have to pay close attention, otherwise that break of silence will creep by without you even noticing.