It's December!

The kids at the drop in center came in all excited after school yesterday announcing, "It's almost Christmas!" so, we spent the rest of the afternoon decorating with lights, trees, ornaments they had decorated, and swaths of red and green fabric, and coloring paper Christmas trees to hang up on the walls.
By the time we were finished, it looked like someone had given Santa's elves too many candy canes and then set them loose.
(The rainbow colored paper chain that dips and stretches all the way around the room makes an interesting contrast with the red and green that came out of the craft closet yesterday...)

This December is a little warmer than the one I experienced last year.

While Minneapolis is buried in snow and below freezing temperatures, it is still warm enough here to have spent the last Saturday night in November outside, playing capture the flag, in a t-shirt and a pair of jeans -- at least for those of us who are warm blooded.

And, in a month and a half, I'll be someplace even warmer.

It's supposed to be 85 or 90 degrees in Kenya when I get there! In January!