I had the radio on this morning as I was getting dressed.
Gene Autry came on singing “Rudolph”. I turned it off.
As I said, I have never forgiven Gene Autry for Rudolph.
I came in and Googled, “Rudolph”.
Turns out, Gene didn’t invent Rudolph. Rudolph came out in a book written in 1939.
Gene turned it into a song in 1949. I was already in the AF by then. So I grew up without Rudolph.
That was a couple of years before “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause” came out.
Glad I missed it.
Our Lions auction brought in a littlo over $400 yesterday. Elvera’s brownies went for $13.00.
I bought some delicious home made peanut brittle for $5.00. 🙂
😦 Still haven’t finished my Christmas letter. I don’t know what to do with a couple of things.
I woke up early this morning with a lot on my mind and my heart–I did pray for several of you during that time. And then my husband got up, and so I asked if he could hold me, and we lay and cuddled and talked for half an hour, and then we both got up.
😦 I just could not write my Christmas letter this year.
🙂 Snow that will last a bit.
😦 Getting used to the new normal. I’m so used to baking for my dad, but my mom eats none of it. Fewer grandchildren this year too. Makes me have to make decisions.
😦 So many getting cancer news. Other adults acting like adolescents.
🙂 Immanuel. Salvation came. Jesus will come again!
This may be kind of morbid, but each Christmastime I wonder if this will be the last Christmas for one of us (in the family). But that helps me to not take it for granted as “just another Christmas”.
🙂 Christmas potluck Thursday night with close friends
🙂 Christmas potluck Friday night with our community small group
🙂 A husband who lets me go crazy decorating and supplies hazelnut branches and large birch trees and evergreen cuttings for me to go wild with. And he also built me 3 rustic boxes for the centre pieces. So much fun!
🙂 A few days off to rest up before family starts to arrive for Christmas
🙂 🙂 🙂 Daughter is scheduled to write the provincial paramedics certification in February – it’s been a long haul for her, but we’re soooo excited for her (I’m glad she is one of the most stubborn people I know)
🙂 Found a beautiful blue spruce for our Christmas tree this morning. Husband has put on all the lights and I’m about to start putting the ornaments on
Karen, I think it was coming up to Christmas 2012 that my father-in-law announced it was likely to be his last Christmas, which the family found hard to deal with even though we thought it probably wasn’t. But most of the year this year we’ve wondered if he’d be around for Christmas, and this year seems likely to be his last one.
I will be 86 next Christmas. If I’m still around.
I don’t anticipate anything.
I am prepared for anything.
I just hope that it doesn’t involve becoming an invalid like some of the guys in my SS class.
But it could.
My only remaining grandparent announced that this year was her last Christmas. She was in physical discomfort, has a slow growing cancer, her younger sibling died this year, and she has less than five years left to complete a century, so it seemed understandable, although it hurt to hear her say it. However, they discovered that she had a urinary tract infection. Now, in my experience, whenever a senior begins to significantly deviate from their usual course and personality traits, a UTI is the first thing that should be looked for – that was actually standard practice in the seniors facility I was trained in. Symptoms of UTI in seniors are atypical, but they can imitate the beginning stages of dementia. Now, after treatment, her mood and outlook, as well as her health, has improved dramatically. She may see a century yet, though my prayer is that she will see Jesus. Nothing is more difficult than for a good person, raised in a nominal Christianity, to understand just what Christ has done for them.
🙂 Results of sleep test – no sleep apnea. Even my snoring was minimal – which my mother could have told him, she said she had to check if I was still breathing when I shared a room with her this past autumn because I was so still and quiet.
😦 As the doctor said, that means it is just my asthma causing me difficulty breathing at night. He said that the most common time to have an asthma attack is at three o’clock in the morning. That is when most suicides are supposed to happen isn’t it? I wonder what it is about that time of night?
Roscuro – Many, many years ago, I heard that 3am is prime time for supernatural (not of God) activity. I don’t remember where I heard it or who said it (or maybe I read it), but that has stuck in my mind.
My dad died three days after Christmas in 2004. On Christmas day he was mostly in & out of sleep in his recliner at Mom & Dad’s house.
We were thankful he made it through Christmas. Although we do not associate his death with Christmas, I do think of his last one every Christmas, but it doesn’t make me inordinately sad.
My heart goes out to those, like Michelle, who lost dear loved ones during the Christmas season.
(I guess you could say Dad died during the Christmas season, but somehow we haven’t made that connection, & I am glad & grateful for that.)
Karen, I read that too, in a book called Bondage Breakers. I have more recently come into contact with serious minds which question that author’s theological grasp. Too often we forget, when we say a day like Hallowe’en, to use an example, is a day when more evil happens, that it was God who created the day and night and the lights to rule the night and day. He is still in control on the 31st of October and at three o’clock in the morning. I think it has much more to do with the physiological effects that accumulate at the end of the night, just before dawn. I just wonder what those physiological effects are. In the case of suicides, depression can produce sleeplessness, and as one who has a little experience of insomnia, three o’clock is around the time when you are desperately tired but cannot sleep and you know dawn is approaching when sleep is nearly impossible. Add serious depression into the mix, and it could become toxic. As for asthma, I have noticed I have more trouble if I have been extensively exposed to triggers (e.g. dust, cat dander, certain pollens) during the day before. At the time of exposure, I usually sneeze and get a little wheezy, but it passes off as I go about my business. Perhaps by about three o’clock, the body is rested enough that the overactive immune system in my lungs feels energetic enough to make a fuss about those allergens.
I had heard that other theory before I was a Christian, & sometimes would feel scared if I woke up around 3. But after becoming a Christian, I knew that I was/am in His hands, & I need not fear any evil influences sneaking into my house at that hour or any other hour. 🙂
There is something disconcerting about that time of night/morning when you awaken and can’t get back to sleep. I think it’s the darkness and the aloneness …
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I had the radio on this morning as I was getting dressed.
Gene Autry came on singing “Rudolph”. I turned it off.
As I said, I have never forgiven Gene Autry for Rudolph.
I came in and Googled, “Rudolph”.
Turns out, Gene didn’t invent Rudolph. Rudolph came out in a book written in 1939.
Gene turned it into a song in 1949. I was already in the AF by then. So I grew up without Rudolph.
That was a couple of years before “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause” came out.
Glad I missed it.
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Our Lions auction brought in a littlo over $400 yesterday. Elvera’s brownies went for $13.00.
I bought some delicious home made peanut brittle for $5.00. 🙂
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😦 Editees.
😦 Still haven’t finished my Christmas letter. I don’t know what to do with a couple of things.
I woke up early this morning with a lot on my mind and my heart–I did pray for several of you during that time. And then my husband got up, and so I asked if he could hold me, and we lay and cuddled and talked for half an hour, and then we both got up.
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:-(. :-). Peace and quiet have ended and the house will be full for awhile.
🙂 Rehearsals and parties spread among church and relatives for next week. Lots of relatives.
😦 🙂 Many of my relatives and outlaws are not saints.
🙂 like me
:-). But they are sure interesting!
🙂 Couple days of rain.
🙂 Adorables stirring. I think I’ll make pancakes for breakfast! 🙂
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😦 I just could not write my Christmas letter this year.
🙂 Snow that will last a bit.
😦 Getting used to the new normal. I’m so used to baking for my dad, but my mom eats none of it. Fewer grandchildren this year too. Makes me have to make decisions.
😦 So many getting cancer news. Other adults acting like adolescents.
🙂 Immanuel. Salvation came. Jesus will come again!
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DIL had her thyroid removed yesterday. She is home now. Chuck says she will start radion in January. The prognosis is good.
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Kathaleena – Change in the family situation is always much harder at Christmas, isn’t it? Sorry about the fewer grandchildren for Christmas. 😦
Chas – Glad to hear that Linda’s prognosis is good.
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Glad the prognosis is good. Patience will be needed for a good recovery.
Thanks, Karen. Certain things make it more difficult. Glad my dad is not suffering, though.
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This may be kind of morbid, but each Christmastime I wonder if this will be the last Christmas for one of us (in the family). But that helps me to not take it for granted as “just another Christmas”.
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🙂 Christmas potluck Thursday night with close friends
🙂 Christmas potluck Friday night with our community small group
🙂 A husband who lets me go crazy decorating and supplies hazelnut branches and large birch trees and evergreen cuttings for me to go wild with. And he also built me 3 rustic boxes for the centre pieces. So much fun!
🙂 A few days off to rest up before family starts to arrive for Christmas
🙂 🙂 🙂 Daughter is scheduled to write the provincial paramedics certification in February – it’s been a long haul for her, but we’re soooo excited for her (I’m glad she is one of the most stubborn people I know)
🙂 Found a beautiful blue spruce for our Christmas tree this morning. Husband has put on all the lights and I’m about to start putting the ornaments on
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Karen, I think it was coming up to Christmas 2012 that my father-in-law announced it was likely to be his last Christmas, which the family found hard to deal with even though we thought it probably wasn’t. But most of the year this year we’ve wondered if he’d be around for Christmas, and this year seems likely to be his last one.
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I will be 86 next Christmas. If I’m still around.
I don’t anticipate anything.
I am prepared for anything.
I just hope that it doesn’t involve becoming an invalid like some of the guys in my SS class.
But it could.
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Power outage this morning for several hours. But we had lanterns and candles and fire and food and are now prepared for a longer outage if necessary.
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My only remaining grandparent announced that this year was her last Christmas. She was in physical discomfort, has a slow growing cancer, her younger sibling died this year, and she has less than five years left to complete a century, so it seemed understandable, although it hurt to hear her say it. However, they discovered that she had a urinary tract infection. Now, in my experience, whenever a senior begins to significantly deviate from their usual course and personality traits, a UTI is the first thing that should be looked for – that was actually standard practice in the seniors facility I was trained in. Symptoms of UTI in seniors are atypical, but they can imitate the beginning stages of dementia. Now, after treatment, her mood and outlook, as well as her health, has improved dramatically. She may see a century yet, though my prayer is that she will see Jesus. Nothing is more difficult than for a good person, raised in a nominal Christianity, to understand just what Christ has done for them.
🙂 Results of sleep test – no sleep apnea. Even my snoring was minimal – which my mother could have told him, she said she had to check if I was still breathing when I shared a room with her this past autumn because I was so still and quiet.
😦 As the doctor said, that means it is just my asthma causing me difficulty breathing at night. He said that the most common time to have an asthma attack is at three o’clock in the morning. That is when most suicides are supposed to happen isn’t it? I wonder what it is about that time of night?
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Roscuro – Many, many years ago, I heard that 3am is prime time for supernatural (not of God) activity. I don’t remember where I heard it or who said it (or maybe I read it), but that has stuck in my mind.
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My dad died three days after Christmas in 2004. On Christmas day he was mostly in & out of sleep in his recliner at Mom & Dad’s house.
We were thankful he made it through Christmas. Although we do not associate his death with Christmas, I do think of his last one every Christmas, but it doesn’t make me inordinately sad.
My heart goes out to those, like Michelle, who lost dear loved ones during the Christmas season.
(I guess you could say Dad died during the Christmas season, but somehow we haven’t made that connection, & I am glad & grateful for that.)
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Karen, I read that too, in a book called Bondage Breakers. I have more recently come into contact with serious minds which question that author’s theological grasp. Too often we forget, when we say a day like Hallowe’en, to use an example, is a day when more evil happens, that it was God who created the day and night and the lights to rule the night and day. He is still in control on the 31st of October and at three o’clock in the morning. I think it has much more to do with the physiological effects that accumulate at the end of the night, just before dawn. I just wonder what those physiological effects are. In the case of suicides, depression can produce sleeplessness, and as one who has a little experience of insomnia, three o’clock is around the time when you are desperately tired but cannot sleep and you know dawn is approaching when sleep is nearly impossible. Add serious depression into the mix, and it could become toxic. As for asthma, I have noticed I have more trouble if I have been extensively exposed to triggers (e.g. dust, cat dander, certain pollens) during the day before. At the time of exposure, I usually sneeze and get a little wheezy, but it passes off as I go about my business. Perhaps by about three o’clock, the body is rested enough that the overactive immune system in my lungs feels energetic enough to make a fuss about those allergens.
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Roscuro – That is a good explanation.
I had heard that other theory before I was a Christian, & sometimes would feel scared if I woke up around 3. But after becoming a Christian, I knew that I was/am in His hands, & I need not fear any evil influences sneaking into my house at that hour or any other hour. 🙂
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There is something disconcerting about that time of night/morning when you awaken and can’t get back to sleep. I think it’s the darkness and the aloneness …
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🙂 feeling better after having a stomach upset this week
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Posting from Rotorua just for Michelle
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Jo likes feeling better.
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