Quiet White and the Christmas Light(s)

Well, its been a while since I blogged something. Thought I'd write again before Janna makes a point of it. The November weather was unseasonal, as it should have snowed on thanksgiving according to Mrs. Parsons but it didn't, in fact it was an extra 20 degrees almost for the next week. Then the snow came. A heavy white blanket settled over NE Illinois overnight, and we all woke up to winter and to find our cars missing.

Well, we didn't get ours towed this year, but we'd learned our painful lesson years ago, nothing worse than standing in the snow in early morning sub-zero temperatures and looking at an empty 'my-car-used-to-be-there' spot.

Last weekend, Erika and I went to the annual church dinner and dance at a golf club in Glenview, it was a nice evening, a buffet dinner with plenty of food and, surprisingly, a few kilograms of Baklava. We had ourselves a friendly table with some girls from housegroup and also and got to know a few more people from church. Erika, Janna & Emily are the three wide grins below:


The very next day, we enjoyed a spontaneous breakfast at IHOP with Janna, Emily, and Robin. It was nice to see the latter, an interpreter for me at church and also at some of my meetings at Northwestern. It always gets a little strange knowing that you're friends and yet have a professional relationship at certain times of the day. Speaking of which, I was accused of a different interpreter of becoming an American Deaf person the other day simply because I was attempting to have a conversation with her in the middle of a lecture. Apparently, a lot of deaf people do that with their interpreters and it took me a long time to warm up. I know that the professor noticed, but honestly, what could he say? :-)

After breakfast, Erika and I went to get a christmas tree, we'd spotted a temporary open air lot that had opened up on sheridan road, complete with a little caravan and a grizzled war-vet type lashing the tree to the car for us and reminding us to keep the water topped up. We got the thing decorated in one day, so along with the winter Quiet White, we got the Christmas Lights.




Peace, for tis the season.

The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. John 1:9