It is the evening prior to Christmas and in my parent's house, it is pretty quiet for even a grouse.

Grandma Uffda is here for the holidays from Lewistown Montana. Unfortunately her time here has been less than ideal as she has been on the brink of pneumonia. Poor gramma. I also feel kinda bad because I have not been spending a whole lot of time with her while she has been here. I have been helping Judy, Willie, and Anna move in to their new house. It's really hard to move during the holidays because it's hard to get the christmas boxes located and then allocate the time necessary to decorate, and put up Christmas lights on the house, and get a Christmas three, and decorate the Christmas tree, and find the stockings, and find the Christmas gift wrapping paper...

I kinda feel bad about not spending most of my time with gramma, but it has been so incredibly rewarding to bring Christmas into the new Ekstrom house.

I have a Christmas miracle story:
I sent in a form for the six month food stamp checkup (to make sure I was still eligible), and I was sure that I would have my food stamp privileges revoked because I hadn't been working 20 hour weeks (which I perceived to be a requirement). Instead of taking away my benefits, THEY INCREASED MY MONTHLY BUDGET! This is such great news. I can still eat and pay rent at the same time!

I also got a jury summons for January 14th.