Company Girl Coffee ~ 11/13/09

Good morning!  Join me for some hot tea by the fire!  We have a lot of fog this morning and my dear husband got the fire going for me.  He’s got a 5-day ‘weekend’ that started on Wednesday, so it’s been fun having him home and we have been able to spend a lot of time together…playing right into Rachel’s “All the Fun” challenge!  In a private conversation this week with another Company Girl, it encouraged me that we are not all in the same place with our relationships with our spouses…and that “Fun” could mean different things for each of us and that each of us must do the best we can with where we are, but PRAYER is the best thing we can do for our spouses!  That’s not to say there was no ‘fun’ though.  LOL

Cross Country Valley Meet was yesterday – our daughter was in the paper this morning…not as our team’s star runner, but the girl all the way to the left of the picture (and behind, not in front).  Her personal time was 20 seconds slower than her PR of the same course, but she did her best and her team placed second…giving them a spot in the State meet on November 28th.  This same girl fell asleep about 10:30 last night with her face in an Algebra 2 book.  :)

Weekend with two kids going to an out of town band competition, hubby with full-day basketball commitments, another daughter with plans…sounds like it will be a QUIET weekend on my end.  I hope to spend some quality time with my Singer sewing machine to get some more things in my shop and some great praise music.

I wish you all a blessed weekend!  Thanks for stopping by!

Cheryl

Christmas COSTS less?

This morning I saw a commercial on TV that I have seen multiple times over the last few weeks.  Their closing statement struck me differently this morning.  They end the spot with:  “Christmas costs less at XXXXXXX*.  (*Don’t really want to pick a fight with them, so it will remain anonymous!)

I understand the concept:  Shop at our store where things cost less. 

But…but…does Christmas truly have to ‘cost’ anything?

It just made me kind of sad that it is so commercial and dollar-oriented.  Yes, we spend money on gifts, but I rather long for a society that doesn’t place so much importance on gifts that cost money, even if it’s ‘less’ money than other stores.

As a child, I read the Little House books over and over and have always marveled at the simplicity of gifts.  It’s time to go back to those days…