Midweek before Christmas...Are We There Yet?

The last week before Christmas has proved to be eventful!

Monday - Wednesday, we are doing school. We also are ending the nine weeks so we are doing nine weeks exams each day. It makes for a busy school week but is a good feeling to not have to come back after the holidays to tests and exams and try to finish up the semester. So we are pushing through!

As a treat (more for me than anyone-ha!), I got Papa Murphey's pizza for tonight for dinner. Chicken bacon artichoke, Papa's Favorite, and of course, a cinnamon wheel! Then we will watch a Christmas movie this evening. No youth group or men's Bible study tonight. :)

If you see this, would you say a prayer for my Volvo? I finally pulled the trigger and got new tires. We were in need of them very much! Well, I picked it up and tried to get home, it stopped accelerating only to about 5 miles an hour and it started making clanging noises under the hood. I was barely able to get it to a parking lot and then something kicked in and it was fine. I called the mechanic and he is able to look at it this morning. We have three daughters all working (Addie is home from college for a month) and we desperately need two vehicles with all their jobs. Please pray it is an easy fix and doesn't break the bank.

We are also supposed to have a winter storm come through beginning tomorrow sometime after noon. Snow changing to freezing rain or sleet which will ice everything.

What a week!

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