Noises in the night

I was awaken early this morning with this hair raising sound. I lay in a bed thinking DH's day of reading and previously hunting had really worn him out; however, I didn't remember ever hearing him snore before. I got up and went into the bathroom and as I did I found the source of the snoring. Would you believe that our little dog was stretched out as far as she could and snuggled up as close to DH as she could possibly be and snoring like a large lion. Now I don't know what she did to tire her out so completely that she slept like the dead, but sleep and snore she did. I snapped her picture and she never moved; however, it did get the attention of DH and we both had a good laugh about the whole situation and Estee awoke to see what was so funny.

On this rainy day, DH took the packages to UPS, stopped off at a friends house to give him the book that he had just completed and on to his house to put his favorite decorations on his tree in the front window. He said he wanted to decorate it his way one more time, then he would pack his things away. Part of the ups and downs of "love after loss" and we both find it difficult during the holidays, and hopefully, it will be easier next year as we begin new traditions with two different families. This was a topic of discussion in Bible study last evening also. No one has come up with any magic answers, the same questions remain out there. We continue to remember that God IS in control.

We attended the band concert and hand bell concert at the high school this evening. We met Krista and Steve there, in fact Lou and I were early!! Lou and I saw many folks we knew and enjoyed talking with old and new friends before and after the wonderful concert. Michelle was in the hand bell concert and they did a fantastic job, as did the band as a group.

We walked out of the concert to find that it had snowed about an inch and was still snowing. We needed to stop at the grocery, and while we were in the grocery the temperature dropped five degrees. We had to shovel our way into the house, and DH was hungry, so after putting the groceries away, I fixed us an Italian sausage sandwich. Like he said, we have got to be crazy, but it sure is fun to do these things together.