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As should be clear to my merry horde of regulars by now, blogging is starting to wind down for the year.\u00a0 One big reason is the need to advance my career, and hopefully come the first of the year I will get news that a position I very much pray for will come my way.\u00a0 Prayers for that would be appreciated.\u00a0 Also, some big family decisions relative to my father\u2019s failing health and my mother as caregiver could also use some prayers. <\/p>\n

In the meantime,\u00a0the really big part of keeping our kids happy and carefree while we pray and fret and pray some more must be maintained.\u00a0 So as time creeps ever closer to the joyous celebration of the birth of our Lord, less and less time will be there fore other important things, like blogging.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

We will spend time making merry, decorating trees, watching specials, cooking dinners (maybe a Medieval Feast this year focusing on a Christmas goose!), and generally being lazy and lounging and enjoying all that God has blessed us with.\u00a0 For though times have been tough for us, I\u2019m aware of the fact that many others have been hit harder, and we have much to thank God for.\u00a0 No matter what happens come the first of the year, God has been good to us, and there are many in the world who would settle for a scrap of what I too often complain about. <\/p>\n

In addition, we will try to have oodles of hours wiled away in such frivolous pursuits as keeping up with exercising, mastering Wii games meant to make us look stupid, and teaching our boys the gracious art of loosing, of which I am master.\u00a0 Being board game fans, we will have plenty to do as the temperatures drop in accordance with Global Warming<\/strike> Climate Change, and will expect to see plenty of scenes like this:<\/p>\n

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No, it\u2019s not me and the boys laying in ambush and attacking a convoy of some left over German assault troops, it\u2019s the closest thing to a hobby my tight schedule will allow me, the always wonderful intro to wargamming club that anyone who has ever wondered about the hobby can easily master:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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Check out the link to Flames of War<\/strong> along the sidebar.\u00a0 It\u2019s both hobby and fun game, so fun even my ever increasingly cool wife has jumped on board with it (and dutifully beat the stuffing out of our boys at least once so far). <\/div>\n

There will be other games, school performances, parties, seeing lights, visiting the ol\u2019symbol of Wall Street while spending more time focused on the real St. Nicholas, and generally enjoying the fact that for Catholics, you never need say, come 7:30 PM, Dec. 25, that it\u2019s all over for another year.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 For Catholics, it\u2019s only the beginning. <\/p>\n

So I\u2019ll be around, just not much.\u00a0 In case we miss each other, check by when you can, I\u2019ll do the same, and have a Happy Advent and wonderful and blessed Christmas season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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