Jammin'

I'm sure everyone has taken in at least one candle-light service over the past week or so...well maybe not the people who are camping in the back-country in Kenya, but almost everyone...

A few friends and I stayed after the morning service to transform the sanctuary from Advent purple to Christmas Day white. The tree is wrapped in white, we use LOTS of extra lights, and we bring in extra greens, reds, and grasses. We add candles to all the ledges, bring in lanterns and extra lit trees. It is one of my favourite transformations of the liturgical season...so celebratory and festive.

The service was lovely, mostly in the dark, the trees and candles glowing, the words on the powerpoint projector, and the kids were oh-so-cute. The coffee and cookies fellowship time was very gezellig and then people began to go on their homeward way. There are always a few people who stay later and chat which is such fun, unless I'm doing the chatting and Ray wishes we were done and ready to be on our homeward way:)

Just as the last dishes were being put away, the sound of "Shine, Jesus Shine" came out of the sanctuary on the piano....and some drums (I wonder who that could be....) and before long it was a duet. Joe and Jeremy playing alongside each other. It was so cool! And when they finished we all clapped...

Joe has always thought the school should have a praise band. Jeremy's mom thought it was a neat idea too....hmmmm.

On the Turntable Today

You will be pleased to know that there is now ...some...Christmas music being played at the DeBoer house. I really couldn't listen to "Let It Be" by the Beatles one more time. (Sorry Craig!). (See what happens when your kids grow up and get "good taste" and fiddle with your playlist!). I had an afternoon of wonderful quiet letter writing ahead of me...and it was time to change the tunes.

1. Disc One of WOW Christmas - fave track? hmmm...don't have one
2. Kevin Ramessar - Acoustic Christmas - fave track? #7 WhatChild Is This? (It has a really great mandolin part in it...)
3. Need To Breathe - Heat -fave track- #5 We Could Run Away (..Not because I want to run away...well, sometimes....but it has awesome keychanges. Craig & I both like it!!)
4. Disc Two of WOW Christmas -fave track? Definitely #15 Little Drummer Boy, by Audio Adrenaline. ( So NOT a Christmas rendition... the ultimate un-Christmas Christmas music.
5. Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong - fave track...the whole album...great to play when you have company over for a glass of wine!!

Blog Surfing

Have you ever spent a "few minutes" blog surfing....where you just keep clicking on NEXT BLOG? Wow! Somehow Blogger directs you to blogs with similar content. Not always but often. I've found some REALLY cool and some really disturbing ones. It's fun to go to your favourite ones...like a photography one and surf the ones that follow. There are so many talented people out there!!! Writers, creaters, crafters.....and especially do-ers!

I started a traffic feed widget a month or so ago and it's been fun to see where people are from when they stop by here. It's fun to see the international traffic, one friend of mine had a visit from "Yerushalim". How random.....maybe they were just surfing too.

So somedays, I am a random visitor on a random page, one day I visited Singapore...and they had such neat comments about life...partly in English.

It's actually not a great thing to do on a busy day....time flies by so fast....and the things on your to-do list are left undone. It is HIGHLY addictive...so I probably shouldn't be writing about it and sharing how FUN it is.

Sorry.