Advent 4

Sigh...today was the last Sunday of Advent, which means another 11 months until I get my favorite blue season back.  It also means that Christmas is right around the corner.  Eek!  Here are the last of the 4 Advent shoes:

 

I actually only wore these for the first service because I just wasn't feeling the heels this morning (I know...who AM I?)  I love the 2 shades of blue on these, and the strap across the foot.

 

The BSF gave these to me for Christmas this year.  Blue AND dragonflies.  She is awesome.

 

This is the scarf she gave me for Christmas 3 years ago (I think).  Did I mention she is awesome?

 

I preached today and taught Sunday School.  Tonight the hubby and I did night 2 of driving around and looking at Christmas lights.  One house was my absolute favorite, and the crazy people invited us in for a tour of the inside!  I think the hubby might be in love a little bit.  He was definitely coveting their decorations.  To be honest, I was coveting their amazing nativity myself.  Most of the big light houses are way too over the top for me.  I like a little more simplicity in my decorations.  Now I must finish laundry and go to bed.  Such is my exciting life.

Friday Craziness

Today I got to church, wrote a sermon, did a funeral, did a graveside, participated in a scarf exchange with the preschool staff (fun!), started Sunday's sermon, finished my sermon for Christmas Eve, did a bunch of other stuff, ordered pizza, picked up the pizza, did youth group with the 3-5 graders.  Whew.  A 12 hour day, and I'm glad to be done.  So, some tidbits from the day:

 

Christmas socks!  I was wearing them with boots under my skirt, but the boots had heels, and eventually I had to switch to flats.  So I was wearing these with my skirt, running around the church, looking oh-so-professional.  But very festive!

 

 

This is the scarf I got in the exchange.  It's actually a lot more fuchsia than you can see in the picture.  My phone apparently just picked up the gold.  I don't wear a lot of pink, generally, but this is beautiful and will go with all of the black I wear.  Yay scarf exchange!

 

My fabulous parishioner has struck again.  First there was the ornaments and then the towels, and today I got these.  They are gift tags!  She said she found them in a bunch of stuff, so she gave them to me.  Woohoo!  I used one of them as an ornament on the shoe tree, and it looks adorable if I do say so myself.

 

It was a crazy day, but a good one.