Merry Christmas

I wish I had an oven. A grocery store, like an Albertsons maybe, would be nice to have within walking distance in a much more mellow climate than what I have here. Chocolate chips, if they were cheap here, or if I could even find them, I'd buy them. Bagfuls. Bags full. Many bags. (I think I'm losing some of my English being here)

Then I would stay up a couple hours tonight and bake cookies in massive quantities like I did with my best friends in our old crammed apartment last year and the year before. I'd wrap them up nicely in plastic wrap or paperbags, tie em up in ribbon and stuff em in a big bag to take to my students tomorrow.

Merry Christmas!

I guess I could have done all this if I had really thought about it sooner. But the thought of GIVING only came to mind this morning, and it was merely a passing thought at that. Christmas. Four days away.

The days are flying here. Some days I think I'm flying with them. Other days, several feathers get plucked out and I can't keep up. Some days I'm loaded with love to give. And other days, I'm a self-absorbed college graduate, still steaming in the head. Stability is an unknown word for most of my peers, I guess. It's hard to accept sometimes because I'm passionate and I want it now.

But this, I've come to accept. That premature GIVING isn't a solution...

As we think about Christmas...these are my vague ponderings. Very vague, I know. Excuse me.

But Merry Christmas!

I choose how I want to live.

I think I just made the best decision I've ever made in my life so far. I can fly now and be me.

Will fill you in later...

Stilt Memory

I was describing what stilts were to my 2nd graders yesterday and told them about the ones my ahpa (dad) made for my brother and I when we were little in Nigeria. From what I remember, they were about as tall as we were back then. So they were some big sturdy circus ones:). I hadn't thought about them since KA days and it was nice to remember the massive backyard we played on in Kagoro.

My brother's coming out for his first leave from the ROK army this weekend! I'm excited to see him.