Dance Side

Kitty: It’s almost Christmas Day! What traditions do you and your family do
every year (or every year that you can)? And what traditions would you like to
do that you don’t do now?

Estel: Well, we don’t have any traditions, except possibly usually celebrating Christmas on Christmas Eve and going to a Christmas Eve service at church. This year, however, we are celebrating Christmas on Christmas Day, and we won’t make it to the Christmas Eve service but we’ll be at the Christmas Day service. I don’t know what I would like to do that we don’t do now, because I’m sick.

Kitty: My family has a Promise Tree. It’s a felt tree my Mom made. Every day
in December we open one of the 25 presents next to it, read the Bible verse in
the present, and place three ornaments (that are in the present) on the tree.
Sometimes we miss a day or two, but we always catch up when we can.

Estel: That’s a neat idea.

Kitty: We also get together with my Aunt (Mom’s sister) and her son sometime in
December to give each other gifts and spend time with each other (either at
their house or at ours). It’s always fun. I’m looking forward to it. We’ll go
to Aunt Pat’s house on Christmas Eve this year.

On Christmas Eve, each one of us opens one present that’s under the
tree. So this year, we’ll go to my aunt’s in the afternoon, probably leave
kinda late, and just before bed open a present.

Which song is it that has “and presents on the tree” in it?
For some reason I can’t remember for sure. Anyway, I’ve thought that was a cool
idea. I’ve done it a couple times before. Got up at midnight or 1am or 2am,
put on my santa hat, crept downstairs, turned on the tree lights (to see by, and
it’s just pretty), placed my presents, maybe admired it for a little, turned off
the lights, and crept back into my room. And of course, I have to say
“Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.” But I usually
wisper it.

Estel: Another neat idea. I don’t know any song with those words; sorry! We sometimes put presents in our tree.

Kitty Pryde here. It’s all good. On Wednesday, I decided to let Estel share my blog. It was, in fact, she who posted “Too Soon!”

Estel here. I don’t plan on posting all that much, but I’ll let you know it’s me when I do.

Kitty: And ya’ll had better comment, too!

Estel:

Kitty: Thanks for going along with our game. Hope you’re not unhappy with us. (Oh, and Caleb, sorry, you probably better not use your sword on David. At least, not for this. )

Well, the semester is over. This hasn’t happened before, but I’m actually sad about a break in school. I had my two favorite instructors, one of whom I will almost certainly never have again. All my classes were in the same building, which happens to be my favorite classroom building. And I got to tutor someone for about half the semester! I will definitely always have positive memories of this semester, and I hope all the rest of you college people have at least one semester comparable to the way this one was for me.

On a slightly unrelated note, here’s a good quote:
“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be always a child.” –Marcus Tullius Cicero

Happy Holidays!

That’s going around alot lately, deliberately avoiding “Merry Christmas”. So, non-Christians want to avoid Christ and take Him out of Christmas. That’s not new, but lets not let them. Take a little closer look at the word holiday, itself.
“Holi” is often used for “Holy” when a suffix is added to “Holy” to make a new word (change the y to i and add your ending, remember?). For instance, “holiness”. So, what would Holiday be? Holy Day. What makes it Holy? The Christ Child.

So, in the future (the near future, mind you), you might consider saying “Happy Holy Day!”, especially when someone says “Happy holidays” to you.

I saw the new movie today! It was great! Now I’m reading the book again, and can’t focus on school because I’m still thinking about the movie. Most of you are probably familiar with the story, and I’d like to talk about it.
Read at your own risk!

I’m used to the old series where they were all closer in age, Susan was a blonde, the White Witch had black hair (that made sense instead of the craziness of her hair in this movie), and all the animals were very human (because they were people in animal-looking suits). So, visually, it took some getting used to for me, although it was good. I didn’t like the White Witch’s dresses. The skirt part was okay, but the top part was just wierd. The animals were very cool in this one.

Of course, the story was great. I liked how they did it. heh, I don’t really know what else to say. If you’ve seen the movie, what did you think of it?