Apparantly she has been singing with them for quite a while. Way to keep up, Aimee.

I've been spending the weekend going through my numerous Christmas playlists, eliminating duplicates, adding recent acquisitions, etc. I've put off the extended SMTBJC until now. It's 8 hours with a lot of duplication, including at least 5 versions of "Shepherds in the Field Abiding" aka "Angels From The Realms Of Glory" aka "Angels We Have Heard on High" using two different tunes.

We've got very very light snow flurries in Athens right now. Very light. But still, snow flakes in GA!

So far, we've watched "The Ref" and bought peppermint JoJos. Next week, we'll probably bake cookies, and I'll select a Secret Santa present. I've been busy trying to adjust to my new chair, that sort of sucks.

It can equal stress, but it's much like coaching, I would imagine. I love it, it's rewarding, it's a thing I really truly belive in and love doing.

Speaking as a Brownie leader (2-3rd graders), the girls are pretty much great. There is one who is kinda nuts, but several who are awesome. It's the parents, the planning and logistics, the Girl Scout office, and the forces of nature that make it stressful.

The difference with coaching is that you have far less logistical issues. Everybody knows going in that it's going to be a pretty heavy focus of time and energy from February through May. So in some ways the heaviness of the commitment weeds out any halfassery.

Preseason you practice at least twice a week, and then during the season you often have three games a week (which also have warmups beforehand etc.)

So basically you just have to send out the schedule and remind people of practices and games and they show up.

The big logistical issue is rounding up people to volunteer to work in the snack shack. The home team is responsible for that every game and that is where it's probably more like leading a Daisy troop. Fortunately, the coach doesn't organize that - that's why you have a Team Parent.

However, when you're drafting your team you are also drafting the parents so if you don't get a good mix of parents with your kids then that's your own damn fault.

After the snow yesterday, it rained and melted all the snow. I'm pleased.

We've got very very light snow flurries in Athens right now. Very light. But still, snow flakes in GA!

Are Casper and Dillo excited? (Didn't you say you were going to take them somewhere -- a mall, maybe? -- where they make snow, so the kids could play in it? Now you have homegrown snow!)

We bought a little tabletop tree last year, and my mom gave me three more tabletop trees, including the ceramic one she made. I plan on putting two tabletops on the mantle with some tinselly stuff and stockings, one tree on a table for gift-puttage, and the ceramic one on the sideboard.

There's no WAY I'm putting up a big tree with 4 cats and a dog that chases them, even if I wanted one, which I don't.

Anyhoo, M is Jewish on his mom's side, so the ornaments are all my grandma's pretty glass ones, and then Star Wars and dinosaurs and owls and robots and snowflakes. I have no unifying theory, other than SPARKLY and FUN.

And they will get put up next weekend, right before M gets here, and come down after our NYE party.

I've done very large amounts of laundry this morning, which I should now be putting away, but I think I am going to take a nap/go back to bed instead.

Heh. They're running an Arrested Development marathon on IFC, and I just heard Ron Howard's voiceover say, "Nobody's making fun of Andy Griffith. Let me just be very clear about that."

A little bit of Opie meta.