End Game, Watchnight

Our time together is coming quickly to an end and everyone is anticipating the travel to each respective home. Josh, Seth and I are going to San Antonio for the wedding and on to my parents afterward, returning to Amarillo on the third (23 hours). Cori, Nate and the kids are traveling tomorrow back to Milton, FL (18 hours). They will make it a two day trip going home since a late afternoon departure will not work on this side of the trip.


Seth arrived home last night after two weeks in West Virginia and will travel with us tomorrow to spend time with Joshua. Mama and the girls are staying in Amarillo since Mama hurt her back playing around with the grandkids and the girls are tired of traveling. Grandma Kline will be disappointed but we will make the best of it for everyone.

The weather is supposed to turn really cold tonight – lows in the single digits. But it will be dry for the duration of the cold snap. It will be a frigid New Year for the beginning of 2011. We will be with the church for the first part of the Watchnight service. None of us will be able to stay through the midnight hour because of the grandkids bdetimes and the travel required of us tomorrow, but we will get in as much as we can.

All of us living in Amarillo are due back at work on the fourth of January. I am the only one looking forward to it, the girls are not. l need to get things back to a sense of regular days and pinch back on the spending that we have been doing these last two weeks. I have a wedding to save up for – at least one.

Brittany and Joshua are leaving Amarillo on the fourth after Brittany gets back here late on the evening of the third. It ought to be a long trip (10 hrs) for them to get back to Hot Springs with both of them so thoroughly traveled during the Christmas break. They both knew what they were in for when they came for Christmas. I think they both have enjoyed it for the most part.

Charles and Becky are on their way home from Mississippi and Becky is supposed to be at her work at 5 p.m. tonight; no rest for her.

We are all excited about the coming year. We hope you are too.