Christmas in July

It was Christmas in July this morning, which is just a nice thing to do if it is July 25^th. Five months from now, we’ll be waking up to see what Santa brought.  Today, Santa brought a few nice items though, even five months ahead.  Daddy got a replacement mug for Mommy, one with a very hard pattern to track down.  The previous one broke, and so this one was a bit of a task to find a pattern for. Nevertheless, Daddy found it and we were good to go.  It was given to Mommy this morning, wrapped in Christmas paper.

And look what Madison got! She unwrapped her Christmas-in-July gift, and saw she now is the owner of  the world’s largest whoopee cushion!  This will be an item well-used over the next few weeks.  We filled with air this morning, and took it for a test run right away.  

PHHHHHTTT!

It was actually pretty nice to listen to Christmas music, and I’m not really sure why.  We generally don’t start all that until November, but for today, we made an exception.  Also, we saw that the “The Man Who Invented Christmas” is available our movie cue list now.  This is a movie we really wanted to see last November, but the theaters were dumb and didn’t make it available.  I say they’re dumb because I know a Christmas movie would do well … at Christmas.  As is, here we are in July, and it is finally out there to see.  Well, this is Christmas in July, so why not?  We'll probably see it tomorrow.

It was art camp again today, and things are going along very nice there.  Madison is playing "Exploding Kittens," but also making things with paint and patterns.  This is the last camp, and she's been so enthused about each one.  Summer Xtreme is still her favorite, but she's really loving her time at the Quinlan Art Center.  We'll have to get one of these art pieces she's making framed - and get it ready for the exhibition coming up soon.  Mommy and Daddy have to get that going too!

Tonight, we continued our KidPak movies series, doing bits from the movie “Trolls.”  Madison had a great time with all the other kids, and the message was a good one. Chris spoke  - the message turned out well.   And meanwhile, Daddy and Josh were in the main service upstairs to do another skit on stage in front of the world.  It went well, so much so that Dr. Rutland is going to have us do a few more, the next one in two weeks.  We’re having fun, and the folks in the audience are laughing at the skit.  Dr. Rutland wrote the skits, and did a great job, and Josh of course is perfect in his role.  Daddy plays a sort of “every man,” one that’s somewhat lost in some oddball situations.

We all got home a little later tonight, but we still made time to read from our devotional, from “A Series of Unfortunate Events, “ and say our prayers of course.  It was a nice day today, a little warm for Christmas. Just five months to go!