Jane is having a Christmas get-together party with her classmates here next Saturday afternoon. This is the second year in a row that we have had it here. Sigh...It seems that no other parent was willing to host it. (I asked Jane to ask the other kids if someone else could take a turn this time, but several moms said "no") Jane was the instigator of the original party and she organized this one (she is a social one). Haha I should blame her.
The kids will each bring a gift and exchange them by drawing a name from a bowl to see which gift each gets. I think Jane is going to have them do a Christmas scavenger hunt, and yesterday I bought two karaoke records of Christmas songs for them to use to have a singing contest of Christmas songs (Relax! I promise not to sing on for you today).
One of the albums even has the cult classic "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer". What other activities she has planned I do not know. Maybe it's best to be dumb about it all... These 12 year olds are an innocent group. Most of them have been in the same class since kindergarten and no "worldly" kids have yet entered the class to "corrupt" them. I know they will eventually become a bit naughtier and more adventurist and will try to do things they shouldn't, but one of my Christmas wish this year is that the 15 or so kids that come to the party don't spike the drinks with alcohol, tear down the house or cause any trouble in the neighborhood. They are easy to feed (my job) happy with veggies and dip, cheese and crackers, chips of all sorts pizza, Christmas cookies, brownies, a Christmas cookie cake, fruit drinks etc. last year I stayed out of the way and it seemed to be fine.
But if I am not here the day after Saturday then you will know they drove me crazy for Christmas. Hmmmmmm I wonder if that my further insanity is a good or a bad thing for you.... Well, what could be worse than a house full of 12 year olds having a Christmas part?
How about Christmas shoppers at a mall that is on fire? Something strange happened this week in Chicago at a Dillard's Department store Christmas sale when the building had an electrical fire that filled the store with smoke. The shoppers didn't want to leave....and more tried to enter the burning building to buy sale items ("Hot items").
It happened in the worst spot imaginable- the women's department of the store. Well, no self respecting man would be in a mall at Christmas time anyway. But those women have the shopping gene and refused to let a fire chase them away. It must have been the "Fire Sale" we often hear about, because even hosing down a woman who is shopping is not going to deter her while she is at is a sale. It took about eight minutes to extinguish the fire. In total, four fire engines, three trucks and three medic squads were present to pressurize the entire store with new air, creating a wind tunnel using high powered fans placed at all the doors to push the smoke out. But some customers at first refused to leave and new ones argued with police in an attempt to get in.
In the overly materialistic world in which we live, I think even if Christ had come down to the store to rescue those female shopping nuts, more than a few of them would rather risk burning among the sale items than to take a Godly offer of eternity in heaven above. After all, a woman MUST shop.
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