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{special post # 3 }
Wow, what a year we had!
On January 1, 2012 this thread was begun and it seems as if I blinked and here we are in the last three days before the start of the Christmas season!
We not only passed last year’s total posts of 3110, we blew it out of the snow and we are not even at the end of the year yet.
As we journey through these last few days before Christmas let us not loose our grip on the joy and excitement that has been building all year.
Let’s sing our songs, decorate our homes and dance for joy as we spread the news that the sprit of Christmas is alive and well!
Steve says in Arthur Christmas…
“If we all gave into the Christmas spirit there would be chaos!”
So what do you think? Ready for some chaos?
Good post star and true very word and yes am ready for some choas lol
You have a great life eating out ~}} mine can stretch to a chinese or a fish supper on a good day enjoy your meal not sure about the raisin sauce
{special post # 3 }
Wow, what a year we had!
On January 1, 2012 this thread was begun and it seems as if I blinked and here we are in the last three days before the start of the Christmas season!
We not only passed last year’s total posts of 3110, we blew it out of the snow and we are not even at the end of the year yet.
As we journey through these last few days before Christmas let us not loose our grip on the joy and excitement that has been building all year.
Let’s sing our songs, decorate our homes and dance for joy as we spread the news that the sprit of Christmas is alive and well!
Steve says in Arthur Christmas…
“If we all gave into the Christmas spirit there would be chaos!”
So what do you think? Ready for some chaos?
Great post star..and very true.. and yes the piicture suits the post thanks
You seem to eat out a lot you lucky thing enjoy your meal tonight not sure about the raisin sauce
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Thanks for the special post, Christmasstar!
What a day. The software I use for household accounting flaked out on me today, so I had to spend a few hours getting a new software up and running. Not looking forward to the learning curve, and not feeling confident with it yet ... But I spent an hour and a half browsing around the Christmas displays at the garden center, and now we're waiting for some pizza. I also ordered a premium quality artificial tree that I'm going to light myself--- gotta go out and buy the lights tomorrow. Hope there are no unpleasant surprises tomorrow! I want to concentrate on decorating and other Christmas prep!
(((Hugs to everyone)))
What a day. The software I use for household accounting flaked out on me today, so I had to spend a few hours getting a new software up and running. Not looking forward to the learning curve, and not feeling confident with it yet ... But I spent an hour and a half browsing around the Christmas displays at the garden center, and now we're waiting for some pizza. I also ordered a premium quality artificial tree that I'm going to light myself--- gotta go out and buy the lights tomorrow. Hope there are no unpleasant surprises tomorrow! I want to concentrate on decorating and other Christmas prep!
(((Hugs to everyone)))
i hope your niece will be ok. i know it gets tiring but she must love you a whole bunch to want you when she's sick.. they say kids want the person that makes them feel safest & takes care of them when they are feeling bad.
hey everyone! been quite busy today. as we were leaving work today the veterans parade was starting. they had a military band & it sounded wonderful. i even heard a police officer say, " that's not a high school band, it's a military 1, there good!"
i put up the tree in our room. the trunk is as tall as the tree part, it's about 4 ft. tall. i filled it w? the ornaments the kids have made over the years & some that are extra special, like the small angel ornament my grandma Ruth got me when i was around 7 or 8. the angel on top is the same 1 from our 1st Christmas. i even left the blinker in it & it's the only thing blinking on the tree. i just love it, makes me miss my kids being small. oh the memories.....
solice, i hope you feel better soon. you can't get sick, it's a rule for us moms.
i'm gonna try to get out tomorrow & buy the new Rod Stewart Christmas cd, Merry Christmas Baby. can't wait to get it, i'm gonna play it & Michael Buble all day!
Very nice !!!!
having a short shift for a change was nice, good to be home again. (only 4 hours today)
Now to work on the cake some more!
Now to work on the cake some more!
bless your heart xmas, you've had this stuff a while now. i sure hope you feel better in the morning!
((((HUGS))))) hope you are feeling better tomorrow
{special post # 3 }
Wow, what a year we had!
On January 1, 2012 this thread was begun and it seems as if I blinked and here we are in the last three days before the start of the Christmas season!
We not only passed last year’s total posts of 3110, we blew it out of the snow and we are not even at the end of the year yet.
As we journey through these last few days before Christmas let us not loose our grip on the joy and excitement that has been building all year.
Let’s sing our songs, decorate our homes and dance for joy as we spread the news that the sprit of Christmas is alive and well!
Steve says in Arthur Christmas…
“If we all gave into the Christmas spirit there would be chaos!”
So what do you think? Ready for some chaos?
Bravo, Bravo, & Bravo!!!! :grin: Reading these was a perfect ending to a wonderful day!!! :merry:
Good (late) evening!!! I had such a fun & Christmassy day! We ended up having 8 girls for the Christmas open house shopping this morning/afternoon. We saw such neat things, the shops were all decked out & smelling wonderful. The carriage rides were very festive (though we didn't go on one) I bought a few presents & a few presents for me!!!! :smile: We went out to eat for a late lunch & drinks, then I headed to my SIL's to bring her the afghan I made for her. As soon as I walked in the door she said "we are going to the garden center" OH MY GOSH what a treat! They were floor to ceiling Christmas! I took a couple pictures but it was impossible to capture the beauty & size of the place on my cell phone camera! LOVED IT! We had so much fun & I think she really enjoyed it. She bought me a beautiul pointsetia. I have it sitting on the fireplace now. When we got back to her house she opened up the afghan & she seemed to love it! It looks so nice in her tv room. Hopefully it will bring her many hours of cozy comfort in the years ahead! :-D She looks great, (so pretty) I'm just hoping & praying her treatment goes extra well!!!
I got home around 9pm (left around 8:15am - long day) & I have been watching Hallmark Christmas movies since!
Hope you all had a great day too!
I got home around 9pm (left around 8:15am - long day) & I have been watching Hallmark Christmas movies since!
Hope you all had a great day too!
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Special Post 4
The little girl was 6 years old and just brimming over with excitement ! Christmastime had come again and it was snowing heavily. A thick sparkling blanket of snow was upon everything outside. It was Christmas Eve 1960 and Santa was going to make his annual appearance that very night.
All was in readiness. Mom was baking cookies and was nearly finished. Dad was doing "dad" things. He always tape recorded Christmas morning on the "latest" in technology tape recorder so he could enjoy hearing everyone in all their Christmas excitement later on when all the chaos was over and he could relax and just enjoy his family. He was also preparing because he was going to record a talk he planned to have with Santa that evening for his 6-year-old. Her two brothers were being very secretive about something as well as her sister and everyone was feeling Christmas in the air. She did not know it but her two brothers had saved for weeks to buy their baby sister a giant stuffed animal dog with their paper route money and had sneaked it into the house, feeling very sly, without her knowing. Of course, her big sister was "in" on it.
Christmas carolers had stopped by earlier in the evening and it was such a magical sight. It was just like a scene right from the little 6-year-old's favorite Christmas movie, A Christmas Carol !! The little 6-year-old was sure this was what heaven was like as she stood holding her mother's hand listening to the joyous songs of Savior's birth as the snow continued transforming everything with its soft, sparkling Christmassy glow. Soon it was time for her to go to bed so that Santa could arrive !!
Her two big brothers and big sister tucked her into bed which had extra blankets given the chilly temperatures. The small fireplace in the bedroom seemed to have a special kind of Christmas warmth that night it didn't usually have. When the little girl was settled in and was comfy her big brothers and sister began to softly sing to her....the same familiar carols she had heard every Christmas but she loved hearing them. This was a ritual every Christmas for her siblings to tuck her in and then sing carols to her. She was far too excited to sleep and she loved being with her siblings.
Hark The Herald Angels Sing rang through the bedroom and down into the kitchen. Mom and dad even joined in briefly as they went about their Christmas chores. The togetherness of the family that night was more magical than any other time in the year...
Silent night, holy night began to fill the room and the lttle girl finally dropped off to dream of Santa and his reindeer, of angels and a town called Bethlehem and of a doll she hoped Santa would bring her called Suzy Smart....
Years later the little 6-year-old girl is now grown. She still remembers those magical Christmases with her dear brothers and sister singing carols. Though her family are mostly gone now except for her sister, she still feels them in her heart and remembers the precious gift Christmas and family gave to her and still gives her.
The little 6-year-old girl has a new family now. They are a group of people who love Christmas as much as she does. She is part of the group where she is always welcome like Christmas itself. Though there are many diversities among this group their souls are intertwined with good cheer and hope for the future, their families and the world and their hearts beat as one at Christmas. There are times when she feels 6 years old again when visiting with this group and when she closes her eyes she can still see the gently glowing fireplace, the beautiful tree and see the gently falling snow and hear the gentleness and peacefulness of Silent Night being sung once more.......
Merry Christmas, my dear Christmas family. I love you all.
Special Post 4
The little girl was 6 years old and just brimming over with excitement ! Christmastime had come again and it was snowing heavily. A thick sparkling blanket of snow was upon everything outside. It was Christmas Eve 1960 and Santa was going to make his annual appearance that very night.
All was in readiness. Mom was baking cookies and was nearly finished. Dad was doing "dad" things. He always tape recorded Christmas morning on the "latest" in technology tape recorder so he could enjoy hearing everyone in all their Christmas excitement later on when all the chaos was over and he could relax and just enjoy his family. He was also preparing because he was going to record a talk he planned to have with Santa that evening for his 6-year-old. Her two brothers were being very secretive about something as well as her sister and everyone was feeling Christmas in the air. She did not know it but her two brothers had saved for weeks to buy their baby sister a giant stuffed animal dog with their paper route money and had sneaked it into the house, feeling very sly, without her knowing. Of course, her big sister was "in" on it.
Christmas carolers had stopped by earlier in the evening and it was such a magical sight. It was just like a scene right from the little 6-year-old's favorite Christmas movie, A Christmas Carol !! The little 6-year-old was sure this was what heaven was like as she stood holding her mother's hand listening to the joyous songs of Savior's birth as the snow continued transforming everything with its soft, sparkling Christmassy glow. Soon it was time for her to go to bed so that Santa could arrive !!
Her two big brothers and big sister tucked her into bed which had extra blankets given the chilly temperatures. The small fireplace in the bedroom seemed to have a special kind of Christmas warmth that night it didn't usually have. When the little girl was settled in and was comfy her big brothers and sister began to softly sing to her....the same familiar carols she had heard every Christmas but she loved hearing them. This was a ritual every Christmas for her siblings to tuck her in and then sing carols to her. She was far too excited to sleep and she loved being with her siblings.
Hark The Herald Angels Sing rang through the bedroom and down into the kitchen. Mom and dad even joined in briefly as they went about their Christmas chores. The togetherness of the family that night was more magical than any other time in the year...
Silent night, holy night began to fill the room and the lttle girl finally dropped off to dream of Santa and his reindeer, of angels and a town called Bethlehem and of a doll she hoped Santa would bring her called Suzy Smart....
Years later the little 6-year-old girl is now grown. She still remembers those magical Christmases with her dear brothers and sister singing carols. Though her family are mostly gone now except for her sister, she still feels them in her heart and remembers the precious gift Christmas and family gave to her and still gives her.
The little 6-year-old girl has a new family now. They are a group of people who love Christmas as much as she does. She is part of the group where she is always welcome like Christmas itself. Though there are many diversities among this group their souls are intertwined with good cheer and hope for the future, their families and the world and their hearts beat as one at Christmas. There are times when she feels 6 years old again when visiting with this group and when she closes her eyes she can still see the gently glowing fireplace, the beautiful tree and see the gently falling snow and hear the gentleness and peacefulness of Silent Night being sung once more.......
Merry Christmas, my dear Christmas family. I love you all.
mine, too....I wish I could write like that....when I write down memories...it more reads like a manual to put together an ikea cabinet or something like that.......First this and this happened, then this and that.....lol
I want to thank everyone who wrote those beautiful essays and memories...they really made my day
I want to thank everyone who wrote those beautiful essays and memories...they really made my day
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Good Morning, My Almost-There Friends.
Yes.
Incredible though it may seem, it has all come down to this:
Days to the Season: 2 (THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!!)
Days to Christmas Day: 44 (Down to 6 weeks the day after tomorrow!)
Days to Thanksgiving: 11 (Down to SINGLE DIGITS the day after tomorrow!)
Holy Holly, Guys!!
Beautiful here yesterday.
Lots of sun, no rain, calm and a high of right about 70. Fantastic for November.
More of the same today? I hope so and it is predicted!
We stand at 42 degrees here right now.
Three down and two to go!
<< What, Crown? >>
Our special posts, that's what!
Today: Caninemom
Tomorrow: Seawaters
Day after Tomorrow: (Well, you well know by now!)
Have a Super-Duper Sunday, Everyone!
{ Once again, our special daily poster has beaten me to the board!
REALLY nice, Caninemom. I can particularly identify with the time frame as I was also 6 years old at Christmas 1960!
Your post gives us hope for Christmas future. It shows how the happiness of this wonderful tradition is so powerful that its passing from generation to generation is assured. Gives me a good feeling to start the day. Thanks, much! }
Yes.
Incredible though it may seem, it has all come down to this:
Days to the Season: 2 (THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!!)
Days to Christmas Day: 44 (Down to 6 weeks the day after tomorrow!)
Days to Thanksgiving: 11 (Down to SINGLE DIGITS the day after tomorrow!)
Holy Holly, Guys!!
Beautiful here yesterday.
Lots of sun, no rain, calm and a high of right about 70. Fantastic for November.
More of the same today? I hope so and it is predicted!
We stand at 42 degrees here right now.
Three down and two to go!
<< What, Crown? >>
Our special posts, that's what!
Today: Caninemom
Tomorrow: Seawaters
Day after Tomorrow: (Well, you well know by now!)
Have a Super-Duper Sunday, Everyone!
{ Once again, our special daily poster has beaten me to the board!
REALLY nice, Caninemom. I can particularly identify with the time frame as I was also 6 years old at Christmas 1960!
Your post gives us hope for Christmas future. It shows how the happiness of this wonderful tradition is so powerful that its passing from generation to generation is assured. Gives me a good feeling to start the day. Thanks, much! }
Good morning, everyone!
I've been very stressed out lately. I'm a freshman in college and the quarter is coming to and end, and I feel like EVERYTHING is due on tuesday. I've always struggled with math so I'm trying to get everything done and bring my grade up, but it's frustrating when you don't understand the material. I always give up. Hopefully I'll manage to pass.
On the bright side, I'm doing well in my other classes.. and I can't wait to go home for the holidays.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend
Good luck with the end of your classes. Keep your head up and keep doing what your doing. God Bless and I'll say a prayer for you. You can do it! :-D
Hope you enjoyed your evening! Sounds like fun! I still think about you all the time, even if I don't reply to posts as often as I would like. God Bless and praying!
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