Hello 2012! What do You have in store for me this year????

Well, sorry about the delay in posts.  I had promised to post pictures of Christmas house decorations and such.  So, those are posted above/below(?). 

Anyway, so far this year I have switched to a brand new schedule.  I am still doing the NightWatch at IHOP-KC and our prayer room hours remain the same: midnight to 6am.  However, instead of sleeping during the day (6am to 3pm) we have switched to sleeping from 3pm to about 10/11pm.  Basically my prayer room hours are now ‘early morning’.  I am on day 11 of it right now and it is going okay.  School doesn’t start back up until the 23^rd and so I have a lot of free time and not much to do. 

I feel like I am going through culture shock, being awake when stores open, instead of only being able to shop at 24/7 places (Walmart…) and seeing the sun a whole lot more.  The weather this winter is not at all like winter, the highs everyday are in the 50’s,but freezing at night.  It reminds me of living in Cochabamba, Bolivia in a way.  Cochabamba is nicknamed the ‘land of eternal springtime’ because year round the high is in the 70s and in the winter it’s only cold at night and early morning really.  I remember in the winters going to school with layers, and hand warmers in most of my pockets.  But by recess it was so warm that we would spend the first bit of recess in the bathroom removing layers.  Then, at night, when the sun went down it would get cold again.  So it’s not exactly the same but I am struggling with the layers by like 10am here.  :)

Well, aside from mentioning that Christmas at home was good and IHOP-KC’s annual conference: onething (Dec.28-31^st) was also really good, and busy…I am not sure what more to say other than…

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

~Emily :)

p.s. I don’t usually do ‘New Years Resolutions’ but I can say that I will try my best to write more consistently this year, both in blogging and newsletters.