Persimmon

This weekend we had time to go grocery shopping, and we picked up a persimmon.  Of course I know these fruit and heard of them before.  But there was some advertising there that I didn't know - it was a "holiday favorite."  So I got one, and perhaps it was a bad one?  I don' know.  It seemed solid enough, and the color was ripe, and I got in the grocery store and... well, it seemed okay on the outside.  And it smelled nice, a familiar pleasant fragrance of fresh fruit that made you want to take a bite.  But just one bite of this fruit was like experiencing a black hole that sucked every milliliter of moisture out of your mouth, and perhaps your head.  It was like a dry bomb that went off in your mouth and immediately vaporized any moisture whatsoever.  It was not a good experience!

So this morning - once we got some more liquids in our system to counteract the one bite of a persimmon - we were doing some more decorating.  The Nativity set is in place, and all that's left are the wreaths.  Those are usually a pain, but we'll get to them.  There's so much to be done, but a lot of that gets tossed aside because there's so much more to be done with our production.  In just one week it will be the day after "How the Grinch Found Christmas," and we've got so much more to do until then.  Tonight was the start of Tech Week, and that just means practice every night.  The families involved, however, are full of gratitude and encouragement and positivity.  We've got a lot to do, but we've also gotten so much done.  Things are shaping into a really nice play.

Maddie had her taekwondo tonight, and she's getting ready for her performance with Team Edge.  That will be good - they've been working hard towards that.  This week is the last week before yet another testing cycle - she's getting a lot of these in.  At this rate, it may be that she gets her third degree belt right about the time she graduates from high school.  Whoa.  That was too much, too soon.  Let's just stay in the here and now.

We're trying to get in Christmas specials and movies where we can, and we're fitting them all in.  We've been watching these shorter ones after the late nights, but they're perfect before bedtime.  We read tonight, and we said our prayers.  Tech Week is here!