Family, Time of the Season

Christmas Eve Mass and Ugly Sweater Night – Photo Heavy

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We left the ugly sweaters the kids made for their parents, to dry while we went to hear my granddaughter Natalie sing in the church choir at the early  Christmas Eve Mass. They all did such a wonderful job and sounded heavenly!! Honestly, my other grandchildren could not wait to get home and open presents.

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Everyone wore a Christmas sweater  and we had our traditional delicious Seafood Pasta dinner and my daughter did the dishes. Yeah!!

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My mom toasted with a Eggnog – fully loaded as you can see.

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Veronica rocked around with Caleb.

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Here is my niece Sandra and Chris, a little quite time after the opening of the presents and the kids are playing with their new toys.

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Here we are wishing ” a very Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!”

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Christmas Joy!

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Christmas Eve brought Santa this year.  A little bit shorter, and a real tiny beard.

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The drums were a drumming. Boom, Boom, Boom, heard our ears.   But we kept a  smiling, “Let them play,” was the cheer.

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We knew we were coming to the Christmas Eve end. ” Let’s get ready for Christmas,” it will be grand!

IMG_0252 Christmas arrives with such splendor and glee.  The Bells are a ringing!  IMG_0254   IMG_0259So happy are we!

IMG_0249 (1)  The children are laughing. No Bah Humbug, here!

The past has it’s stories, the future its glories, but it’s all about the present with our family and friends.  IMG_0247

Christmas joy is for all!

Christmas will always survive!

This, I BELIEVE!

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Merry Christmas!!

Don’t know about you but every year the holidays seem to come faster and faster.  It just seems that by the time I take down the tree it is time to put it back up.  I always feel like I will never get everything done.  The tree decorating, the shopping, the wrapping, the cooking, and the over spending.  However every year it manages to come together.  Christmas Day arrives and within a flash, of a flash, it rolls on by.   get-attachment (17)

To me Christmas is simple.  It is about my two grand children.  They were my Christmas presents from the day they were born.  get-attachment (34)

 

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I thank God every day for my family.  So in spite of the hectic hustle and the bustle that we all get sucked into I always try to take a moment and reflect on the gifts that I received, the good gifts and the bad gifts , and thank God for them all.  For like I always say without the bad we would never know the good.

Now this Christmas look around you, and take all the good along with the bad, wrap them up with a bow and place it under the Christmas tree.   Offer it up to the reason for the season.

Merry Christmas!

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