Merry Christmas - Candle

I will be out of town till next week, want to wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Christmas and God Bless!

Does your family do the "Elf"

My granddaughter takes the Elf very very seriously, this morning the "Elf" played with the lego.

She has been such a good girl this month, she always is a good girl and can sing "Jingle Bell Rock" to perfection.

Christmas Shelf

I was determined this year to decorate my house for Christmas in one day instead of spreading it out in 4 weeks.  The reason being I did not want to have to pack everything up in a long period of time.  Well, it didn't happen.  I started really early to decorate, here in Omaha people start decorating day after thanksgiving or earlier.  When I lived in the East coast we started (21 years ago) two weeks before Xmas and it got me in the mood.  Well I have been decorating for the last 3 weeks.  I have lots of Xmas items and I will be cleaning house after "Little Christmas".  

I celebrated Christmas last night with my son and his family and it was so so sweet.  My granddaughters waited their turn and did not rip the presents in 5 minutes time, they are growing up to be such beautiful young ladies. My DH and I will be leaving for Texas Thursdays morning and those grand children 2 and 4 - I am sure will rip it all up real fast.

Yesterday I did my hours at the food bank and the participants received an extra bag of groceries (ham).  Helping other helps me to be so thankful for all that I have.

Enjoy the next few days and breathe, it will get all done, I promise.