Just sitting in a Hampton Inn blogging on the way back from Christmas at my parents. It’s only a ten hour drive (plus stops, which have multiplied exponentially with my children), but we’ve chosen to break it up largely due to the aforementioned children.

Caught up on my RSS feeds, and felt my stomach drop at the news from Asia. God have mercy.

We left for south Georgia last Thursday evening. Dayton was hit by a 12+ inches of snow the previous night, so it took about five hours of shoveling to get on the road. The streets on our neighborhood are among the last to be shoveled, and the ally is never touched. In order to get the car out of the garage (off the ally) I had to shovel the entire ally. Fortunately we are the second house from the end of the block. Anyway, we hit the road about six, spent two hours sitting in Cincinnati traffic, (They should really consider plowing I-75 thru town.) and finally stopped an hour north of the Tennessee border. We finished the drive on Christmas Eve, and now we’re redoing it.

Hope Christmas was good for all. God’s Grace in the new year. It’s a little belated, (I wasn’t sure if Steve was going to use it for his Advent Blog.) but I want to share it anyway.