I love snow! Growing up in Southeastern Virginia, I saw precious little of it as a child. One year, when I was in 7th grade, we got a foot of snow and we didn’t have school for ten days. No snow plows in the south.
I have found that in church-world, snow is problematic. It can affect the numbers who come to church, and as we all know, Baltimore is a not-so-southern city that behaves like a very southern city totally unaccustomed to the white stuff, when it comes our way.
So the snowfall predicted for Saturday may cause some problems, for church-world and for my personal world. I only have two parties a year, and I am having them both on the same day. I am indeed insane, to answer your unspoken question.
Early Saturday is my cookie party for children and their parents (and a few Nativity people who like tiny, sticky fingers so much that they want to come and be a part of it). Saturday night is a small get together for my extended family living here in Maryland. Despite the fact that they all live less than an hour away, I have been quite remiss in seeing them with any frequency. Sometimes I only see them once a year.
So, it was time to get relational. My relational gift to them this year is a small (easy) get together at 8 pm on Saturday for the Dixons (my aunt and uncle, and their offspring and grand-offspring), where we will catch up with each other. We will also engage in two behaviors that my family members are instinctually born with: eating junk and being irreverent. We are good at both and proud of it.
I hope the snow doesn’t keep them away. They are, after all, originally from the real south. I’m counting on my cousin who grew up in Baltimore to get them to my house in his truck.
Get ready for snow, hon.
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