It’s Christmas Eve eve!! Cooking baking cleaning and Christmas Carols are blasting the airwaves!
Warm here but finally the winds have died down for the moment. I miss winter weather…especially at Christmas. The Lord is over all and for that I am thankful!
Good morning! We celebrated Trey’s 14th birthday yesterday. We dropped an elderly friend off at the amtrack station at Lamy, and then went on in to Santa Fe and went to Meow Wolf. That was a bizarre art experience.
we slept in today. Now to get started on outside projects while the weather is nice. We have several already started.
not sure about Christmas. My daughter texted me that her dad and his wife are invited probably cuz Colorado daughter is visiting. Ruins Christmas for me she said were also invited but has never invited me
now my sister has invited me
I plan to spend the day writing thank you notes and thinking about gratitude and what He has done for me
So sorry to hear about all that difficult situation, Jo. It is a difficult time for many for various reasons.
We will miss out on going to Hilton Head this year. We are both having trouble with knees and such and still working on the financial hacking. Glad son is home for Christmas and will see his girlfriend afterwards. This has been my first year ever to not even have a day trip. I choose to be a Happy Homebody♡ Not a member of the Happy Housewives of ATL, lol
Our weather remains crazy. We are supposed to break record highs with 70s the next two days. It is beautiful outside but does not feel like Christmas.
Praying everything works out in unexpected ways to bring extra joy this Christmas for each of my Wandering friends. I love you all♡
Cooking is done, cookie dough chilling in the fridge and it’s warm outside. I haven’t had a Christmas like this since living in Florida…that was forty years ago! I alwayS thought it odd that people purchased a Christmas tree while they wore flip flops….well they are doing it here in CO!! Something definitely not right here!
Jo I pray you go to your sisters and enjoy the comfort of family about you. If you lived close by I’d say come on over! Whatever you decide my prayers are covering you in hopes that you sense His presence enveloping you…
Rk your dear young man is just so handsome and how is it he is 14 already!!?
Janice ’tis a blessing you having your son home. Praying God’s healing upon your aching knees while you pace yourself! Sometimes we just want to get up and go but our get along has a hitch in it’s giddy up!!
Kizzie are the girls and Boy going to be coming over to your place for Christmas…praying for you and for them…
Royal icing…I have to look that one up M!! It sounds complicated to me but oh so regal!!
30 years ago was a terrible day for me as well. I signed papers to terminate life support for my mother.
It was the right call, everyone agreed, and I had the “satisfaction” of remembering what my mother said.
When she gave me medical power of attorney, I said, “Great. You gave this to the pro-life person in the family who will forever feel guilty if she has to use this.”
Mom replied, “We know our children and we know you’ll do a good job.”
I cannot tell you how much that one simple statement meant to me, particularly over the following 7 nightmare years.
Hold ’em close. You never know. Mom died playing golf.
NJ – We will be having our family Christmas celebration tomorrow evening, Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day, Chickadee will still be here so we will have a quiet, pleasant time together. We will probably watch a movie together at some point, and we will have plenty of good things to eat left over from the night before. Not sure, though, when the McKs will pick her up, so I’ll be playing it all by ear.
Although this will be nice, it is different from what we have done for many years. When Nightingale and Boy were still living here, we had a Christmas Eve tradition and a different Christmas Day tradition, but they flowed together with a night of sleep between them. Now with them living in their apartment in town, we will keep the best of those two days for Christmas Eve and celebrate separately on Christmas Day.
At first, after Nightingale texted me with this idea, I cried. So much has changed and is changing in my life, so that changing Christmas traditions hit hard for a while. But it is natural for traditions to change throughout our lifetimes. Even our now-former Christmas Eve and Christmas Day traditions were different from what we did for many years before.
Jo – If you do decide to stay home on Christmas rather than going to your sister’s house, please still have a little private celebration. Perhaps have something good to eat, maybe make or buy some cookies to have. Watch a nice Christmas movie, if that’s something you like to do, and/or play some Christmas music.
I’ve had a couple of holidays – a Thanksgiving and a Christmas Day – that I spent alone, for different reasons, and that’s the kind of thing I did. There were some tears, of course, but I tried to make the days pleasant and to remember what the days were commemorating.
God bless you and comfort you, dear sister-in-Christ.
thanks Kizzie. I do have a plan for tomorrow. Taking a friend to the airport and then errands and another friend and I are going to the Christmas Eve service. It will be so nice to go with someone
today I got a lunch bag ready for Clara for her travels. She has been sick and is still working half day tomorrow
I’m just giving myself time to see God’s plan for Christmas
jo
oh, Janice, Walmart has a tube of cream called arthritis cream that has greatly helped my knee
Kizzie when you mentioned Chickadee will be with you on Christmas it brought a warm smile at the thought of you enjoying your girl one on one. I pray there will be opportunity to have deep conversation with her as the Holy Spirit leads.
The changing of traditions as we grow older can be tough. Recalling happier days gone by bring tears. But knowing this…we celebrate His coming to earth for us remains forever.
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It’s Christmas Eve eve!! Cooking baking cleaning and Christmas Carols are blasting the airwaves!
Warm here but finally the winds have died down for the moment. I miss winter weather…especially at Christmas. The Lord is over all and for that I am thankful!
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Cookie decorating party in 45 minutes–time to make the royal icing!
Merry Christmas to all!
M
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Good morning! We celebrated Trey’s 14th birthday yesterday. We dropped an elderly friend off at the amtrack station at Lamy, and then went on in to Santa Fe and went to Meow Wolf. That was a bizarre art experience.
we slept in today. Now to get started on outside projects while the weather is nice. We have several already started.
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yesterday marked 30 years since my husband left
not sure about Christmas. My daughter texted me that her dad and his wife are invited probably cuz Colorado daughter is visiting. Ruins Christmas for me she said were also invited but has never invited me
now my sister has invited me
I plan to spend the day writing thank you notes and thinking about gratitude and what He has done for me
maybe I’ll ignore Christmas
jo
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So sorry to hear about all that difficult situation, Jo. It is a difficult time for many for various reasons.
We will miss out on going to Hilton Head this year. We are both having trouble with knees and such and still working on the financial hacking. Glad son is home for Christmas and will see his girlfriend afterwards. This has been my first year ever to not even have a day trip. I choose to be a Happy Homebody♡ Not a member of the Happy Housewives of ATL, lol
Our weather remains crazy. We are supposed to break record highs with 70s the next two days. It is beautiful outside but does not feel like Christmas.
Praying everything works out in unexpected ways to bring extra joy this Christmas for each of my Wandering friends. I love you all♡
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Cooking is done, cookie dough chilling in the fridge and it’s warm outside. I haven’t had a Christmas like this since living in Florida…that was forty years ago! I alwayS thought it odd that people purchased a Christmas tree while they wore flip flops….well they are doing it here in CO!! Something definitely not right here!
Jo I pray you go to your sisters and enjoy the comfort of family about you. If you lived close by I’d say come on over! Whatever you decide my prayers are covering you in hopes that you sense His presence enveloping you…
Rk your dear young man is just so handsome and how is it he is 14 already!!?
Janice ’tis a blessing you having your son home. Praying God’s healing upon your aching knees while you pace yourself! Sometimes we just want to get up and go but our get along has a hitch in it’s giddy up!!
Kizzie are the girls and Boy going to be coming over to your place for Christmas…praying for you and for them…
Royal icing…I have to look that one up M!! It sounds complicated to me but oh so regal!!
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30 years ago was a terrible day for me as well. I signed papers to terminate life support for my mother.
It was the right call, everyone agreed, and I had the “satisfaction” of remembering what my mother said.
When she gave me medical power of attorney, I said, “Great. You gave this to the pro-life person in the family who will forever feel guilty if she has to use this.”
Mom replied, “We know our children and we know you’ll do a good job.”
I cannot tell you how much that one simple statement meant to me, particularly over the following 7 nightmare years.
Hold ’em close. You never know. Mom died playing golf.
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NJ – We will be having our family Christmas celebration tomorrow evening, Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day, Chickadee will still be here so we will have a quiet, pleasant time together. We will probably watch a movie together at some point, and we will have plenty of good things to eat left over from the night before. Not sure, though, when the McKs will pick her up, so I’ll be playing it all by ear.
Although this will be nice, it is different from what we have done for many years. When Nightingale and Boy were still living here, we had a Christmas Eve tradition and a different Christmas Day tradition, but they flowed together with a night of sleep between them. Now with them living in their apartment in town, we will keep the best of those two days for Christmas Eve and celebrate separately on Christmas Day.
At first, after Nightingale texted me with this idea, I cried. So much has changed and is changing in my life, so that changing Christmas traditions hit hard for a while. But it is natural for traditions to change throughout our lifetimes. Even our now-former Christmas Eve and Christmas Day traditions were different from what we did for many years before.
Wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas!
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Jo – If you do decide to stay home on Christmas rather than going to your sister’s house, please still have a little private celebration. Perhaps have something good to eat, maybe make or buy some cookies to have. Watch a nice Christmas movie, if that’s something you like to do, and/or play some Christmas music.
I’ve had a couple of holidays – a Thanksgiving and a Christmas Day – that I spent alone, for different reasons, and that’s the kind of thing I did. There were some tears, of course, but I tried to make the days pleasant and to remember what the days were commemorating.
God bless you and comfort you, dear sister-in-Christ.
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thanks Kizzie. I do have a plan for tomorrow. Taking a friend to the airport and then errands and another friend and I are going to the Christmas Eve service. It will be so nice to go with someone
today I got a lunch bag ready for Clara for her travels. She has been sick and is still working half day tomorrow
I’m just giving myself time to see God’s plan for Christmas
jo
oh, Janice, Walmart has a tube of cream called arthritis cream that has greatly helped my knee
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Kizzie when you mentioned Chickadee will be with you on Christmas it brought a warm smile at the thought of you enjoying your girl one on one. I pray there will be opportunity to have deep conversation with her as the Holy Spirit leads.
The changing of traditions as we grow older can be tough. Recalling happier days gone by bring tears. But knowing this…we celebrate His coming to earth for us remains forever.
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