The Median Sib

Home again! It’s Monday night, and I’m back home and blogging again. I had a wonderful Christmas weekend with lots of visiting and fun. Highlights include:

Friday dinner with the children and grandkids - watching the little ones open their gifts and seeing their excitement.

Eating dinner today at my mother’s with 48 family members! All seven of us siblings were there! Then doing the gift exchange - one person at time. It took forever, but it was so much fun! Two regrets: I didn’t get a picture of the 7 of us together with our mother, and I wasn’t able to stay very long.

Taking a hike yesterday on PawPaw’s country property in the cold afternoon with occasional drizzly rain - very refreshing!

Holding my niece who is ten months old and having her smile at me.

Driving around town with PawPaw’s mother, brother, sister-in-law last night to look at the Christmas decorations.

Flying home tonight with PawPaw in his small plane — flying above the clouds and seeing a spectacular sunset that everyone below couldn’t see because of the cloud cover. Then going from 6,000 ft to 4,000 ft as we neared Nashville which put us right in the clouds - rather spooky flying 150 mph and not able to see anything…just trusting the instruments.

Now I am looking forward to tomorrow when I’ll get to visit Sweet Stuff and Sunshine and have them show me all the goodies that Santa Claus brought them.

You are invited to join the MONTHLY MARATHON blogroll. It is a group of people who promise to walk or run a marathon each month - not all at once but one or two miles at a time - to equal 26.2 miles each month. A 30-minute moderately-paced walk five days a week will MORE than do it.

We already have six people on our blogroll for the 2006 Monthly Marathon. I’ll add you to the blogroll when you join, and I’ll provide you with information for adding the blogroll to your site. Membership has requirements, though. Click on the icon below to go to the Monthly Marathon website. You’ll find more information there.

I hope you’ll join us! It will be a good way to get in some good exercise for 2006, and it will also provide motivation and comraderie with fellow Monthly Marathoners.