Noel

Every time I see the word Noel, I remember a funny story about our middle son when he was 10 years old.

We were getting ready to move to a new town and the kids were none too thrilled about it. Their Dad had to get an apartment for a few months and we would follow when school ended in May. But, now it was just after Christmas and we had traveled to the new town to be with my husband. To get them acquainted with their new town, we went driving around to look at Christmas lights.Did I mention the kids were not thrilled? We came to the intersection of 2 highways and that middle child was thoroughly disgusted. “Why are they putting people’s names across the street?” The other kids agreed that was kind of stupid. It took us a minute to realize he was reading Noel backwards (Leon) because we were coming at it from a different direction. I know it’s not right, but I have to laugh now every time I see that word!