Christmas Countdown Friday Five

So long since my last post. Shame, shame, but there it is.

A Friday Five from Songbird at RevGals:

There are only five full days before Christmas Day, and whether you use them for shopping, wrapping, preaching, worshiping, singing or traveling or even wishing the whole darn thing were over last Tuesday, there's a good chance they will be busy ones. So let's make this easy, if we can: tell us five things you need to accomplish before Christmas Eve.

My five things I need to do before Christmas:

1. Loosen up my back, which I threw out yesterday while setting up for the Christmas Pageant. Ugh! I am now hobbling around, muttering under my breath. I do this every couple of years, and it takes a few days...(or more)...to get back to normal. Not good timing.

2. Remember where I have stashed all the things for the kids and Mr. Incredible. And wrap wrap wrap. While not bending over or stretching.

3. Finish the reader's script for the Christmas Pageant, rehearse, make sure youth who don't show up for rehearsal know what to do, give out costumes, and pull it off on Sunday morning. Oh, and finish the set-up which I couldn't do after #1.

4. Plan children's time and my part of the readings and prayers for Christmas Eve. Not too much to do, granted, but I need to think ahead.

5. Figure out what we are eating next week. It will be just the four of us, and for the first time ever we won't see other family on Christmas Day. I'm actually looking forward to it. All my family but one sister is out of the country this Christmas. We'll meet up with the other side of the family between Christmas and New Year's. It will be nice to have all Christmas Day to enjoy with one another and not rush off somewhere. But we will need to eat.....

Merry Christmas!