Florida, Jacksonville - Monday, December 16, 2013 - Pecan Park RV Resort

This week looks like it is going to be better than last week – fever and aches are gone.  However, still no refrigerator.  Looks like it may be the New Year before that happens.  The part evidently shipped Thursday, but it will take eight business days to actually get here from Ohio.  That puts us up to Christmas Eve, I think.  The RV repair facility is shutting down between Christmas and New Year.

Since we are here in Florida for the specific purpose of meeting up with three of the kids and their families for Christmas in Orlando we are going ahead with that plan and then we’ll come back to Jacksonville after the first of the year (if the part is actually here).  We’ve gone this long without the fridge we can make it a couple more weeks.

Last week I was up enough that we got the Christmas cards signed and mailed.  The packages we sent to Indiana and Kansas have arrived at their destinations and we’ve finished our other shopping and wrapping so things are actually going well.

We have our Christmas tree up.  Someone on Facebook posted the other day, “remember having one of these when you were growing up?”.

 

We have our lighted garland up, but we are holding off putting up the ornaments until Christmas Day when we arrive in Orlando.  I just don’t think they would travel too well and they bring back so many good memories each year when we put them up, I’d hate to break any of them.

This is our first year away from an Indiana Christmas, it just seems odd to still be sitting outside enjoying temperatures in the 70s and 80s.  We are going to have to play more Christmas carols so I can really get in the holiday spirit.