Obviously, it was Christmas this week! Not too much going on at home, really, Alex has still been working a lot of hours and the rest of us are basically chilling. There was a Christmas eve service at church; we all went out to early dinner with Mary Jane at Texas Road House so we could make the 6:00 service, then afterwards we watched “Elf.” We had a nice Christmas at home: Beth got me a Komets hockey jersey (love it), I got her the Warsaw Cut Glass Ornament and tickets for us to go see an Eagles tribute band next month. The kids got their games and clothes and movies and gift cards and candy. We went to see the synchronized Christmas lights display like we usually do in the evening. It always amazes me that people are willing to spend that much time and effort putting up lights. We did get a new tree this year and managed to get it put up a few days before Christmas, but never did get it decorated. I put Beth’s collection of decorative Christmas trees up, and the stockings, but that was completely it for Christmas decorations in the house this year. 

While watching tv a couple days before Christmas, Beth was eating popcorn and forgot that she has several crowns because she loves crunching the unpopped kernels. Well, she broke one of her crowns on one of them. The dentist’s office is obviously closed, so she won’t be able to get it taken care of for a couple weeks at best. I hope she makes it. 

Something also went snap in the trainer while I was riding it in the morning the day after Christmas, and then the pedals wouldn’t turn. I was afraid I broke it somehow, but once I got the bike off the trainer again both of them turned just fine by themselves. Somehow the two smallest gears had come loose; looks like we didn’t get it tightened up enough when setting it up last week. I went to the Trail House and they lent me a sprocket wrench for free so I could get everything put back together and tight, and after that it seemed to work just fine.