1. Share your Christmas Eve traditions. We go to early church service and then come back to our house with extended family to exchange a few gifts, eat a few snacks, and watch A Christmas Story. (You'll shoot your eye out!)
2. What was the best book you read in 2010? (we're not going to include The Bible here). Hmmmm . . . most thought provoking was "The Divine Commodity" by Skye Jethani. Really makes you think about how the consumer mindset has invaded even the way we approach our Christian faith. Too many of us are looking to be spiritually fed by good preaching and perfect fellowship, rather than looking to serve God where He, in His divine wisdom, places us.
3. Do you have pets and if so do you allow them on the furniture? We have two dogs and we allow them on some pieces of furniture (but not all).
4. What event from 2010 are you most thankful for? Purchasing and moving into our new home. (See my blog posts ad nauseum on that one!)
5. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before? I took up the sport of racquetball, fell in love with it, and lost 30 pounds having the time of my life with it! (See my blog posts ad nauseum on that one too.)
6. Brussel sprouts...friend or foe? Fresh Brussels Sprouts sauteed with garlic are some of my very best-est vegetable friends. Frozen Brussels Sprouts, on the other hand, are vile foes.
7. Who would you nominate for man/woman of the year? I think I would nominate my friend Carin and her husband Jeff. They lost their young son to neuroblastoma a couple of years ago, and they have since channeled their grief into a establishing a Foundation that will fund cancer research (specifically for childrens' cancers). See The Ben Towne Foundation for more details.
8. Insert your own random thought here. Randomly speaking, our new house is the coziest and most homey place I have lived in since I was a child. Truth!
If you'd like to play along, answer the questions on your own blog post and then link up over at Joyce's (use the button at the top of this post for the link). Joyce is taking a break next week, so the weekly Hodgepodge will return in the new year.
- Catherine
5 comments:
That book sounds fascinating. I'm putting it on my list of books to read in 2011.
Enjoy these last few days until Christmas!
Great answers. Excellent nomination for man/woman of the year. Thanks for sharing. Blessings, SusanD
Great answers!
The book sounds good.
Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas!
Enjoyed reading your post. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Love the story of your friends...I"m always inspired by people who can turn a tragedy into something positive.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and lots of happiness in your new home in the new year!
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