Stacia's Team Won! and more...

 Stacia and Makenani, her friend and fellow classmate, have been preparing for a debate in one of their classes.  You can imagine the angst when they were required to debate "Alaska should NOT have a comprehensive financial plan."  This was not an easy topic to research and Stacia wanted the other side of the debate. 

They won the debate! Yay! Makenani came by for celebratory ice cream and be introduced to the Emperor's New Groove.  Do we know how to celebrate or WHAT? LOL 

Millie, Makenani, Allie and Stacia 

Stacia has a couple of papers to turn in which are in the editing phase and the upcoming week is FINALS WEEK.  We're looking forward to having her around home a bit more for the next few weeks. 

I spent the day putting up the rest of the Christmas decorations. This involved lugging boxes up and down the stairs as I determined to decorate the basement too. I did keep the decor to a minimum this year. 

I did get the tree UP - sorta - but need to trim it. This is my final bit of decoration. I will spare you all the other photos. 

Sunday night edit - Friday, Stacia was home, and I was able to get out of the house and run errands.  I came home and baked sugar cookies and made some truffles...which I planned to take to BreZaak's and decorate and dip and have a tea party with them while Bre went to a tea party. Unfortunately, all the up and down seems to have tweaked my knee. The top of my kneecap is swollen. I woke up in horrible pain Friday night and knew it wasn't going to work to watch 5 kids.  I've spent Saturday and Sunday simply resting, elevating, icing and taking Ibuprofen around the clock. The swelling is going down, I can walk with twinges instead of tear inducing pain.  Ironically, I was able to finish reading The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer - recommended - as I laid around. I hope to be up a bit more on Monday.  Everyone else went to church today. The girls went on to Anchorage to a Japanese Rice Pounding Festival and Michael and GG went to Carrie's to do some maintenance jobs for her.