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December 27, 2005
And it was
a very merry christmas!
How about yours??
We had a wonderful holiday this year. Lots of nice new things, mostly stuff we can use and enjoy. Andy found me the PERFECT Last Supper painting that I had asked for. He said he had given up on finding one and just happened to go into one of those "catch all" sort of stores where they have a little bit of everything and he said he was walking down one of the aisles and there it was!!!
He also got me a really nice kitchen aid mixer, which I've wanted forever, and a new coffee maker. Oh yeah, and I bought him a really nice set of cookware and he got me my very own tool set, drill and all!!! LOL My mother thought that was a riot, but you see, he does most of the cooking and I am forever looking for a hammer, screwdriver or drill and can never find it cuz he doesn't put that kind of stuff away so he bought me my very own kit! So, it all works out!
We enjoyed Christmas morning with the kids and my brother Frankie was over as he joined us for the Christmas Eve service at church this year and then Mom and Dad stopped by mid morning to open their gifts and then we all went out to their house mid afternoon for dinner and more presents under the tree! My other brother Josh and his family joined us there.
I bought my new sister inlaw and my youngest brother, a Bible for Christmas, well, a really nice Bible that had many paintings in it by Thomas Kinkade and it also had a lot of pages for family geneaology. I thought it was really beautiful and would be a nice family heirloom and a little bit of religion for them would be a GOOD thing ;). But, I don't think she liked it much and I'm thinking now maybe I should have said something to her about it as I didn't mean for it to be an insult or anything like that. I don't know, but she opened it, looked at it, said, "Nice." and put it back in the box. She didn't even show it to my brother or anything. So...not sure that was a good idea, but at the time I thought it was a really nice gift. Dunno.
Our girls faired quite well as usual, but mostly things they can use or need. Some clothes and Hannah did get some toys. All her money went into the bank this year too.
It's been cold and rainy here, ugh! I was just getting use to the snow too, and now it's almost gone again!!!
Off to do laundry and get this house picked up and maybe even take the tree down, awful aren't I?? Can't stand the clutter though.
More later!
Posted by tracey at December 27, 2005 07:13 PM
Comments
Hey Tracey! So glad to hear you had a good Christmas! We did too, but NO SNOW! Poo!
Ah well. The weather's so much different now! Scary, but it really does just point to prophecy about the nearing end of time.
Wishing you a beautiful and blessed new year!!!
~hugs~
Posted by: G~ at December 27, 2005 10:04 PM