Christmas was lovely with an extraordinary snowfall for Nashville. What made it even better was having Maria and Michael for 10 days and Matthew and Amanda for less than 24 hrs., but very thankful they could come (and return safely to Knoxville). The snowfall jeopardized our last Sunday at Hobson, but most folks made it to church, and we were blessed by the church members' prayer of dedication and laying on of hands, along with breaking bread together after service.
Mon. and Wed. I am cleaning out my space at school. I have been in 6 different rooms at Whites Creek in my 7 years here. That was God's way of keeping me from pack-ratting what I could have, yet there's still plenty to go through. I should get most moved out today.
Tuesday I enjoyed another training session at the Apple Store in Green Hills, this time on I-Life. It's amazing what one can do with media on a computer. I hope I am able to take advantage of what our Macbook Pro offers. Just need the time--as usual. Friday I have a session on Getting Started; the 5th I have a 7 a.m. session on OS-X. The computer is at the Apple store now for file transfer from our old Dell.
I know I entitled this blog about entertaining, so what I wanted to say is how much I have missed entertaining in our home the last 6 years. Circumstances have conspired against me, and I have not had the energy and heart, I suppose, to combat them. We have used our dining room as a study/computer center. The long, folding table we use when we have guests was converted to my desk for my school planning room when Maria moved out. To use it in the living room requires moving a mountain of school stuff. Then, we did not live close to our parishoners, so it wasn't easy to just say, "Drop by tonight after church." My school schedule left me drained at the end of the week. Bart's bicycle job had him working late on Fridays and then needing Sat. night to prepare for Sunday. As for Sunday lunch entertaining, I usually needed to get back to the school work to be ready for the next week. Reluctant to invite folks and then ask them to leave so I could get back to school work and Bart could finish Sun. night preparations. But I have truly missed having friends and acquaintances eat with us. That was a regular event at Sanwabo and in Ouagadougou. So when we return to West Africa, I look forward to getting back to entertaining. There will be fellow missionary friends, medical personnel and volunteers passing through, church leaders and members, and hopefully some friends/acquaintances in our little town. I'm feeling pretty socialization starved.
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