Prayers are welcome.  I'm really proud of him and truly comforted by his training and his focus on his training. He's grown now and probably won't be returning to my care. I miss him terribly, but I am enjoying the empty nest. Follwing the team including Blazersedge is a fun and exciting distraction.

We had a ham dinner for ten tonight.  I hope yours are brats or real good sausage dogs.  With sauerkraut.  That would be a worthy Christmas dinner. We had fun. A lot of family came and a couple who are like an honorary aunt and uncle.  I hadn't cooked for a crowd for quite a long while.  My daughter had a rough night of it.  Her boyfriend is a Marine currently deployed in Iraq.  My friend (who goes to Blazer games with me- the above mentioned friend of the family) and I had sent him a huge box of home baked cookies.  He took a picture  standing next to the stacked containers of cookies. The stack was as tall as he is. Ha ha.  He played Santa passing them out.  My son leaves for his base back east in the morning and for Iraq in less than 2 weeks.  It's pretty calm there now reletively speaking, and I'm not borrowing trouble. I am real proud of him.  I believe the terrorists are not engaging us here because they are busy with our troops there.  So, I am grateful the troops are willing to stand in the breach, and truly thankful to have my son home this one important evening.  This was the first Christmas without my dad, and it would have been very difficult to miss both of them. My nephew and I are going to the Christmas day game tomorrow. I made a banner out of glittery red felt.