weekending

 

Happy Monday, friends! I'm linking up with Holly and Sarah for today's post. I hope you had a great weekend! Mine was fun and extra festive. 

I was ready and dressed to see Santa in that night's parade! My dad came over as usual, and stayed through until the parade started at seven. We watched White Christmas together, we listened to Christmas music, we had lunch, and an early dinner, then we enjoyed the parade with Trish and many friends that night.

It was so much fun!

I feel very strongly about this time of year! 

I saw my sweet friend, Marilyn! We stood and caught up for a few minutes before agreeing that we need to meet up for dinner soon. I love her! 

I also really, really love parades. I had the biggest smile on my face the entire time. I had Dad, Trish, and Graham to my right, and Jonah and his girlfriend Laura to my left. I saw many friends who participated in the parade and had fun waving and cheering them on, and getting high fived from the little cuties marching in front of their parade floats. Our town does it up right! 

This was the bus I was invited to ride in to be part of the parade, as a town board member, but I passed up the offer to sit with family. But I seriously want to ride this bus! I'd love to look at Christmas lights in it. Later that night, my man got home from being gone all week, and man I was glad to see him! It feels like he was gone for a month. It was after midnight before we stopped talking. We were both up pretty early the next morning, but while I got up, he was able to go back to sleep. I was glad, because he worked hard this week! My mom and sister came and picked me up for our morning out, because my car battery needs to be replaced. We have an appointment for that today at the VW dealership, because they also have to do something to program something else. We went to a really cute gardening and gift shop, and I laughed at this towel.

I feel like I should have bought myself the towel. It's true! They had the sweetest little shop dog who followed me around for a bit. I love when shop owners bring their pets to work! 

Sunday was a full day at church! I was there at my usual early bird time, and walking back out at twelve thirty. I took a nap after lunch, and for dinner, Todd went and got sushi for us. I read outside for a few minutes while the dogs played, then we left for church. We had a really fun annual event called The Jingle Bell Jam. Our jazz band at church were the ones playing, and it was so good! 

It was a packed house! After that was over, Todd and I picked up the groceries I'd ordered earlier in the afternoon, then we made a quick trip to Walmart before coming home. It was a fun and festive weekend! How was yours? I'd love to hear what you did to celebrate! Thanks for reading my blog, friends. Love to all! 

It was brought to my attention that the prompts for the December edition of Currently were the same as last month. I'm so glad my friend Jennifer found my mistake and told me! Scratch what I said on Friday about the prompts; instead, let's all share what we're currently loving, gifting, wrapping, hoping, and attending this month. That post will be on Wednesday of this week! See you back here tomorrow!