Getting Ready for Germany

Friday, we head to Duesseldorf for a long weekend. Naturally, Skip, who is probably the family member who is most looking forward to it is sick. If he does not feel better tomorrow and plans to go to work anyway, I may have to sit on him and make him stay home to rest. He still has a few pounds on me, but in his weakened condition, I think I can take him.

I've been enjoying and struggling with the preparation for two sermons I am going to preach on the 21st and 28th at First Pres in North Little Rock. It's a lot more fun preparing sermons when you don't have to do it every week, but it's also a lot harder when you're out of practice.

So, what do people in Germany want from England? Here's a list of stuff I'm taking various people:

children's chewable air sickness medicine
Booth's Pink Curling Gel
Mince Pies
Christmas Puddings
PG Decaffeinated Tea
A couple of magazines

I have plenty of suitcase room because I plan to bring quite a bit home with us. On our list to bring from Germany to England.

Some baking goods for my mother-in-law
Tempo tissues (they come in portable packs and are much stronger than what you get in England or the US)
Milka Chocolate
Christmas ornaments
Neuropas (a homeopathic medicine that is a blend of St. John's Wort, Valerian Root and Passion Flower extract. It's a must for beating the grey, rainy winter blahs)
Knorr dill salad dressing mix
Haribo gummis

Any requests? Get them in quick!

We are all looking forward to seeing friends, although many of our friends are no longer living there. I get updates from friends in Istanbul, Shangai, LA, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Texas. Next week Maddie is having a friend over after school for the last time before she and her family move to Perth, Australia. It's a weird, weird world we live in.




Last week was the annual Pendleton Court Tea at ACS Hillingdon. It is a holiday tea hosted by the fourth graders of ACS for the residents of a nearby retirement home. Two children from each class (first-fifth) were chosen to present something that they are working on in school. Maddie and her friend Evan were chosen from her class and they shared their Gingerbread Boy stories.