Yesterday I wished I had a camera next to me as I sat eating lunch with my kids and looking out our window onto the street. Down the street came an obviously drunk man stumbling along, pushing his shopping cart with a santa hat on his head an holding a half-full bottle of wine. It wasn't even in a bag as usual, just out in the open. Anyway, I thought it would make a great "Merry Christmas from the Raughleys" picture. Too bad....
Thursday World Impact held what I like to call our Christmas Flandango. It's a huge Christmas party for the community with tons of craft and ethnic food booths. We try to make it a family-centered event for people to make memories together. Since we haven't done it in a few years due to many reasons, our numbers were down from 600 to about 250-300. But that's okay with us! In addition to food and crafts, we had a petting zoo, health fair, prayer tent, living nativity, and a paintball target-shooting trailer. Since I was on the planning committee, that's been occupying most of my time these days. Needless to say, my Christmas cards and presents are not ready or mailed yet. Hopefully by the beginning of the week....
THat's all for now. I still need to recover.
