Today is November 25, 2008. It is one month to the "Big Day".....A month full of sending out cards, baking cookies, making candy, freezing dishes ahead for the "Big Night before the Big Day", wrapping gifts and storing them, putting up the tree, the tinsel, the garland, the outdoor lights, the indoor lights, changing the CD player in the car to seasonal music, watching It's a Wonderful Life, Meet Me in St. Louis and White Christmas for the 110th time!
Thursday we leave for a mini-vacation. When we get back we join the frenzied race to prepare for the "Big Day." For this reason, I am sending my Christmas wishes for all of you out very, very early!
If you are sent my Blog, then you don't have to be told that the best gifts I have ever received are my four Grands. I share them with you for the season. Think of them as angelic little elves. Once that thought is in your mind.....remember that all gifts have been shipped to great-mimi's house because there is no trust in the house during the month of December....Dani will surely check out the Blog to see if I gave away any secrets (sorry, kid)....Gabi will beg me to tell her what Santa is bringing, except after last week's episode at Walmart, I think her dad had a 3:00 with Santa last Friday and gifts for Gabi are still in question. Only Izi and Alison can be assured of wonderful presents. They truly are still God's littlest angels sent to our lucky family!
Have a most wonderful holiday season. If you don't have children or grandchildren and would like to experience the joys of Christmas through the eyes of a child, I am sure Dani and Gabi can be persuaded to come to your house for the afternoon and share the delights of childhood!
Tom is now out planting trees this morning (light snow, 22 degrees....the Arbor Society assured us the trees would be sent "in time for planting"). Speaking of trees, I am getting ready to put the artificial one up. When we get back from our little vacation, we will install a nine-footer in the sunroom. Frazier Firs are just gorgeous and it will greet our visitors all month long and then be pulled to the forest to serve as protection from the weather for our furry little friends!
From one year to the next, friends and family are what I treasure most! Happy Holidays, Seasons Greetings, Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noel and MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all!
Thursday we leave for a mini-vacation. When we get back we join the frenzied race to prepare for the "Big Day." For this reason, I am sending my Christmas wishes for all of you out very, very early!
If you are sent my Blog, then you don't have to be told that the best gifts I have ever received are my four Grands. I share them with you for the season. Think of them as angelic little elves. Once that thought is in your mind.....remember that all gifts have been shipped to great-mimi's house because there is no trust in the house during the month of December....Dani will surely check out the Blog to see if I gave away any secrets (sorry, kid)....Gabi will beg me to tell her what Santa is bringing, except after last week's episode at Walmart, I think her dad had a 3:00 with Santa last Friday and gifts for Gabi are still in question. Only Izi and Alison can be assured of wonderful presents. They truly are still God's littlest angels sent to our lucky family!
Have a most wonderful holiday season. If you don't have children or grandchildren and would like to experience the joys of Christmas through the eyes of a child, I am sure Dani and Gabi can be persuaded to come to your house for the afternoon and share the delights of childhood!
Tom is now out planting trees this morning (light snow, 22 degrees....the Arbor Society assured us the trees would be sent "in time for planting"). Speaking of trees, I am getting ready to put the artificial one up. When we get back from our little vacation, we will install a nine-footer in the sunroom. Frazier Firs are just gorgeous and it will greet our visitors all month long and then be pulled to the forest to serve as protection from the weather for our furry little friends!
From one year to the next, friends and family are what I treasure most! Happy Holidays, Seasons Greetings, Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noel and MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all!
