3 J'S CHURCH CHRISTMAS

Can't post it all (the unsaved spouses or people with difficult family situations that attended, the people who came as a result of invitational fliers); but will get something up.

The 3 J's went to the Church Christmas together, stayed for the Pot Luck and Gift Exchange. Joyce headed up the ukulele group, women's chorus, and handbell choir as well as led the congregation in singing "O Holy Night", for a Christmas special--it's in the Japanese hymnal!

And after Pot Luck, we had gift exchange. You were supposed to bring things costing 100-300 yen ($1-$3). Rules were such you could either choose a gift from the gift pile OR take a gift from among the ones that had already been chosen and opened, up to two take-aways per gift, and the person from whom the gift was taken had to choose another gift from the pile.

I think I ended up with the best gift of the three of us; a cute little mug with a matching cloth carrying bag. But it had been a long day by the time the afternoon was over, and I realized on the way home, in the car, I was so tired I wasn't talking much. When I got out, I almost forgot to take the bag of leftovers. And I tell you, it was among the juiciest of chickens I've ever had. Hey, that should've been another paragraph. See? I'm too sleepy to write right. Anyway, the 3 J's Christmas Church was a good one.