Dec 25th, 2012 started at 6am when the kids came in and begged to open presents. Eric said no presents would be opened until 8am, go away. After fending them off for a half hour I decided to try our super great wifi and stream a church service, www.seacoastgrace.org. I highly recommend watching church, there is a messages and message archives menu option to select either the most recent service or services up to several years back. The first time I attended Sea Coast Grace in Cypress was on a Christmas Eve several years ago. The music and entertainment was better than anything I could have bought tickets to. Pastor Surratt’s message always seems to speak directly to my circumstances and leaves a vivid image in my mind. This year we sat in our beautiful new floating home in a lush anchorage with the rain coming down all around us with homesick kids. The theme for this year’s service was Christmas in the City. Pastor Surratt is from a small town in the mid-west and mentioned how different it was back home surrounded by nature and seeing God’s work all around you. Yes, we all looked outside to see God’s rain watering and cleaning God’s coconut trees, flowers, and other unidentified jungle plants. He also talked about all the popular songs that talk about being home for Christmas, yet many people aren’t home for the holidays. The military people that are off at their duty stations, travelers visiting other people’s homes, and of course at the first Christmas, everyone was traveling to Bethlehem. So, once again, Pastor Surratt’s exciting service draws us in to hear God’s message for us.
8am came after church and waffles, we sat inside with the doors open watching the rain and opened presents. The kids had a chance to shop for each other so they were excited to trade packages. Some of the highlights were that Roy and Genny got the latest Dork Diaries and Wimpy Kids books, Roy also got a machete. A few years back Santa gave him a grappling hook, now his sisters give him a machete, scary. Marie got Apples to Apples the Disney Edition, yahoo, big hit we all played for quite a long time.
The kids have been very good at entertaining themselves lately, I’m really pleasantly surprised. After gifts they disappeared into the woodwork and Eric got down to playing with his Christmas gift.
Those guys at the shipyard worked overtime on the solar panel mount and Eric was anxious to get them up and running. Out came the soldering iron, wires, and connectors.
See these poor guys working in the rain as the boat swished back and forth with the surge. They all had a week off ahead of them and long hours on our project behind them.
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By the end of the day he had 2 of the panels collecting the energy God gave us from the sun. Unfortunately, we need to go to the boat supply store for a bit more wire to get the other two connected. The kids and I spent the rest of the day cleaning up the boat for the tour I’ll give next. Now that the panels are out of the forward port cabin Marie got her room. We scrubbed up the bathroom, wiped the walls and windows, organized and arranged Marie’s stuff and she moved in. At the end of the day the kids called all their friends on facetime. We all had a nice chat with the Aanonson and Gough families.
Genny is determined to do some cooking around here, so she started with Christmas dinner.
The fresh provisions are getting low. We had steak strips with pepper and onions and a little bbq sauce, cucumbers, olives, lettuce and couscous with corn in it. See PJ on my phone being passed around the table? Tonight was Marie’s turn to pick a movie. After much debate over whether we should watch shark shows, she picked Soul Surfer, hopefully Marie will want to go in the water today.
