Christmas Countdown - 2017

[MerryBells]

Good Morning, Good Morning, my Friends!

This is it, Folks.
The start of the most exciting 6 days of our entire Season count.
Day one of the Special Post Seried commences today and culminates the evening of the 12th, when we meet here in real time to count down the hours, then the minutes to the commencement of Christmas Season 2017 at midnight eastern standard time November 13!.....

My, my, but the time is flying! It doesn't seem possible that The Season is almost here already!

 

[MerryCarey]

GOOD MORNING MMC !!

Can you believe it, 10 years ago today I joined this amazing place full of wonderful people who all enjoy the same thing.
Thank you to all of you for Making us a place that we all enjoyed going to, usually on a daily basis. Of course there have been times when things Have conspired to keep us from coming here, but even then you’ve all been on my mind.
Thank you to you all for being a special part of my family!

Ten years! That's marvelous! Thanks for hanging out with all of us all that time!

(I had to check my join date. Next November I'll have been her ten years, too!)

 

[Holiday]

Afternoon MMC!! Decorating and some pesky Christmas light trouble shooting. Seems I may have some miss boxed blinkers..since I buy mini bulbs by the 500 ct. this is a big deal...lol

Good luck!!!

 

[Holiday]

GOOD MORNING MMC !!

Can you believe it, 10 years ago today I joined this amazing place full of wonderful people who all enjoy the same thing.
Thank you to all of you for Making us a place that we all enjoyed going to, usually on a daily basis. Of course there have been times when things Have conspired to keep us from coming here, but even then you’ve all been on my mind.
Thank you to you all for being a special part of my family!

Happy Anniversary Star!! So glad you are part of this Merry Family!!! ♥ You should celebrate today!

 

[Holiday]

Ten years! That's marvelous! Thanks for hanging out with all of us all that time!

(I had to check my join date. Next November I'll have been her ten years, too!)

I had to check my date too! I missed my 12 year anniversary on October 17th! Darn, I didn't even celebrate! I'll have to make up for that!

 

[Yuletide Junkie]

Nice snuggling weather!!!!

Provided my spouse remembers to turn down her electric blanket before drifting into Nigh - Nigh Land...

 

[Edge612]

Happy Anniversary Star!! So glad you are part of this Merry Family!!! ♥ You should celebrate today!

With pizza!

 

[MerryCarey]

I had to check my date too! I missed my 12 year anniversary on October 17th! Darn, I didn't even celebrate! I'll have to make up for that!

Congratulations! So happy you're here! Looking forward to your being here many more years!

 

[Holiday]

With pizza!

Great plan!

 

[Holiday]

Congratulations! So happy you're here! Looking forward to your being here many more years!

Sounds like another great plan! And likewise - wishing all of us MANY more years here celebrating together!

 

[MerryCarey]

Sounds like another great plan! And likewise - wishing all of us MANY more years here celebrating together!

AMEN to that!

 

[Holiday]

Have a wonderful evening everyone!!! I'm heading home to finish up cleaning - Lucy's favorite - vacuuming! NOT!

 

[Christmasstar]

Thanks all !
Carl has made a special drink for me when we get to the Pines tonight. But knowing his special drinks I’m not sure I’m anxious to try it . LOL

 

[NcGunny]

Just watched the pizza delivery boy drop my XL double everything pizza in the driveway. Of course it fell out of the box and landed updside down!!...cant wait for today to be over with.

 

[MerryCarey]

Thanks all !
Carl has made a special drink for me when we get to the Pines tonight. But knowing his special drinks I’m not sure I’m anxious to try it . LOL

Sip it slowly, and bring someone to show you the way home!

 

[MerryCarey]

Just watched the pizza delivery boy drop my XL double everything pizza in the driveway. Of course it fell out of the box and landed updside down!!...cant wait for today to be over with.

Please tell me he didn't stuff it back in the box and present it to you anyway, thinking you didn't see him drop it!

 

[Crown 84]

Thanks all !
Carl has made a special drink for me when we get to the Pines tonight. But knowing his special drinks I’m not sure I’m anxious to try it . LOL

That's always a risk, Star.

 

[Edge612]

Just watched the pizza delivery boy drop my XL double everything pizza in the driveway. Of course it fell out of the box and landed updside down!!...cant wait for today to be over with.

Tip Gunny?

 

[DoYouHearWhatIHear]

Day 5 Special Post
2 years ago when I wrote a special post I wrote about memories that I had. Today I would like to talk to you all about the reasons I love the Christmas Season. The world just seems like a better place during the Christmas Season. There's something very special about walking into a mall with Christmas music playing. Everyone just seems a little happier and nicer. There's something special about walking around the neighborhood at night seeing all the houses lit with Christmas lights. And there is something very peaceful about sitting, on a dark December night, right next to my lit Christmas tree with a Christmas show on. There is something amazing about sitting down with my family on Christmas Eve for dinner, the biggest dinner of the year. There is something that still makes me feel like I'm 5 years old when I wake up on Christmas morning and realize it's Christmas. I have felt this way for a long time, and the older I've gotten the more strongly I've felt about all of these things. But the truth is without all of you I would not be able to keep it alive all year like I am able to thanks to you. I know some of us come and go during the year and we all get busy in our lives but it's nice to visit every day and see some of the familiar names posting about their daily lives, what time of year is coming up next, and little thoughts we have randomly throughout the year about the upcoming Christmas Season. Well today all I can say is that believe it or not we have arrived. We're here. The 300+ day wait that we've had is just about to end. We all know time is impossible to slow down but the only thing that I can tell you is the one way that I've learned to slow it down (just a little) is by enjoying the little things. Make an effort to stop at some point every day during the Christmas Season and look at your Christmas tree for 10 minutes, or put on a Christmas cartoon for a half hour, or take the long route to work and play an extra Christmas song in your car. Enjoy it. We can't get this back once it's gone. But I do hope that we all will have many more years of Christmas Seasons ahead together to build up to and enjoy together. Merry Christmas to all of you. It feels amazing to be able to say that we're here...but we are.​

Our friendships here light up the darkness that can be around sometimes like lights in the night or Christmas songs in the mornings. Thank you for starting us off so well, Edge. So glad you are a part of the MMC family.

 

[DoYouHearWhatIHear]

Hey y'all! Happy Special Posts Day #1 and Happy Pines Day! We can all toast Carl's drink to Edge's great post tonight. So glad after a long day of work to stop in and say hi. Sorry I couldn't respond to everyone's posts today. Hope we all have a great night and a great day tomorrow! See everyone at the Pines! I'm ready for some nice pumpkin pie spiced drink!