I have nothing of interest in my head these days.  Merely the tsunami that is Christmas bearing down upon me.

I’ve been letting the non-sermonic exploration that I’m responsible for percolate.  I’ll deliver it on Sunday.  We’re celebrating Hannukah at Common Table.  It will also be the third Sunday of Advent.  We’ve chosen to explore eschatology for our Advent series this year.  So I have the unenviable task of wrapping up the Advent series, explaining Hannukah and just to make things interesting I threw in the Magnificat.  I like a little spice in my life.

I began Christmas shopping on Wednesday evening.  Most people are finishing up.  I’m just beginning.  I really, really want to get LightBoy Rock’Em Sock’Em Robots for Christmas.  I know that is completely at odds with my pacifist leanings.  But I loved those when I was young.  They are fun and funny.  They make you laugh til your stomach hurts.  LightGirl is increasingly difficult to shop for.  Any ideas for a young teenage girl will be gratefully accepted.

LightGirl is currently writing an essay on why the framers found the Bill of Rights necessary.  This is for history.  She is frustrated because she just wants to give me the “right answer,” and I won’t tell her what that is.  I just want her to think and give her good marks for learning and thinking.  Oh well, at least she’s learning about what each amendment is and why we have them.  We’re also having some good discussions around each of them.  It’s making for some more interesting conversations than we’ve had recently.

More hockey this weekend.  A Christmas tree.  Hannukah.  Lighting a menorah.  An office Christmas party that involves fondue.  Life will be interesting.  More as it happens …