Christmas Recap

Christmas this year went by so fast that even my pictures are a blur!

I apologize for the poor photo quality. Apparently I had the camera settings wrong (or someone's little fingers got where they oughtn't have been). I guess I was too busy trying to capture the flurry of events to notice or correct it.

Quotable Sunday

To the New Year:

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn


An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan


Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown


A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown


Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge

A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest

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Aloha Friday

Aloha! And Merry Christmas!!! I hope you all are having a beautiful day surrounded by loved ones.
My question today is simple...

What was the best gift you received this holiday season???

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Merry Christmas!

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author Unknown

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ~Washington Irving

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ~W.T. Ellis
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...
~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. ~Author Unknown

Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. ~Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby

A Thousand Words Thursday

A Rare and Wonderous Sight Around Here...

SNOW!

Happy Holidays! May they be filled with joy and wonder.

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Wordless Wednesday

I'm a little late getting my post up, but wow, has it been busy around here! We're trying to get the kids on a new schedule. I'm weaning Mr. Man (read getting up a lot at night and losing sleep) and trying to finish wrapping, baking, cleaning, etc. Blogging has fallen by the wayside.

Anyway, I guess my WW is not wordless at all.  I wanted to post a tribute today in honor of a wonderful friend I lost last year at this time. He was such a love and I miss him dearly.  Merry Christmas Max.






I hope you all have a blessed and happy holiday. Remember to hold your loved ones dear. 
May the true spirit of Christmas bring you great joy!

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