There are only 18 days left until Christmas and I am stuck in a chair with a badly sprained ankle from a fall down the church stairs last night.  I am the vice chairman of our Christian School Board and was filling in for our chairman who is on his way to Sweden and Denmark for a wonderful Christmas adventure with his wife.  I had Christmas cookies on the table for our members and I wanted hot water for tea, hot chocolate, and apple cider.  This meant a simple trip up the stairs to the fellowship hall kitchen to get the big industrial sized coffee pot for heating hot water.  Unfortunately, on the way down disaster struck and here I am today stuck in this chair. 

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