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Hey all,
I'm back from the Prairie. It was fun, mostly. Aftern 13 years, I still don't
"get" some of the dynamics in my husband's family, but I guess that's okay. Once again, my mother-in-law's midwestern cooking has me struggling to button my jeans. We did get our managable snowfall--three inches after almost everyone had gone home. One sister-in-law and kids stayed an extra day so as to avoid the bad driving conditions, much to the delight of my kids. Cousins and snow--what more could a kid want??

Now I have two and a half days to finish two papers for my annual lectionary study group gathering next week. I had hoped to do more work on this during the vacation than I did. It was impossible to find a quiet corner to work in. My husband, his nine siblings, their spouses, their kids=nearly forty people in a not-all-that-big house doesn't add up for that. And then when we were finally the only ones left, my kids moped around whining that now that all the cousins were gone there was nothing to DOOOOOOOOOO, so I ended up playing endless games of mancala and Scrabble instead. Oh well--I used to do the old multiple papers in 48 hours trick all the time back in college/seminary. Let's hope I haven't lost my touch.