On the 7th Day of Christmas . . .

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On the Seventh Day of Christmas . . . I am dreaming of a Snow Day at OLR. Hey! It could happen. I'm also excited about the New Year! Goodbye 2010. HELLO 2011! Wow! A whole New Year! Oliver and I will be hanging with the gang. We've got bubbly apple cider chilling in the fridge. We're going to go for a walk, and spend some quality time with our old friend 2010. Then we're going to play some board games, and maybe go online for some Club Penguin. Penguins are cool for non-bears. Later, Gorilla has picked out a book from the Library to read to all of us. I hope that it's Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell. Oliver is hoping for Shiloh, by Phylilis Reynolds Naylor . Gorilla usually chooses a great book. What are you doing to celebrate?

Sloshy

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A Goldfish?

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Rainman

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4th Sunday of Advent

Gaudete!

Did you notice the pink candle in the Advent wreath at Mass? The third candle in the Advent Wreath, which is lit on the Third Sunday, is pink because it's Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete is latin for REJOICE. During Advent, as we approach the great celebration of Christmas, we offer little sacrafices to God, to help us "PREPARE A WAY FOR THE LORD!" (Remember John the Baptist saying that in the Gospel?) One of my classmates at OLR dressed up like John the Baptist at our Christmas Concert and came loudly down the dark Chuch ailse shouting, "Repent. Prepare the way of the Lord." Well, on Gaudete Sunday, we take a break from the preparing and repenting, and REJOICE for a day, because God is so awesome that He became one of us. It's like a little Christmas on the way to the big Christmas. Cool, huh? How's your Advent going? Don't forget to REJOICE along the way.

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