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Thursday, December 18, 2008
What I love about Christmas
Posted in BeingFirst of all, for those of you who have been praying for my sweet MJ, thank you!! She is doing so much better now and we are ever so thankful to be back at home with our family intact.
A few weeks ago AC (5) gave Keith a book he made all by himself. It's a blank book so Keith can fill it in himself. It was AC's own idea and he was quite pleased with himself. Keith decided to make it a "What I Love About Christmas" book and he has been keeping it in his pocket and filling it in as things come to him. Soon I imagine he'll read it to all of us. I thought I'd like to do something similar here on my blog (also inspired by Chas's series last week about Christmas favorites)
So, in no particular order, these are a few of my favorite things (mostly about Christmas, but also some all the time things):
My Savior whose sacrifice for unworthy me takes on more and more significance with each passing moment.
My husband who is so very suited to coexist with me that it's almost eerie.
All of my extended family and the fact that they're all close enough to get together for a family Christmas celebration- hooray!!
FUDGE! Not that marshmallow fluff nastiness and not the junk made with condensed milk. Real, honest-to-goodness old-fashioned fudge. Just sugar, butter, milk, cocoa and vanilla- cook it, beat the tar out of it until it hurts and then beat some more. Oh, so, SO good. And only at Christmas. No exceptions.
Christmas lights on the tree after dark.
The red candle with the plastic poinsettia ring on the little gold-painted plate. My mom has has this since I was tiny. We went to visit someone and I was so taken with this decoration that she gave it to us. When I moved away Mom gave it to me. It is not beautiful but the spirit behind it is and it gives me a smile every time I see it.
A healthy family. There is nothing on earth that can compare with having my husband, children, parents, father-in-law, brother, sister, nieces and nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins and even some grandparents all in good health and able to celebrate the birth of our dear Savior, even if celebrating together is just a phone call. I am blessed.
It's a Wonderful Life. I just can't get enough of Jimmy Stewart and his funny, lisping-sort of voice. I love it.
The Carpenters' Christmas Portrait CD. This album IS Christmas music for me. My mom has had it for YEARS and it has permanently imprinted itself on my brain as THE soundtrack of Christmas. All of the songs lead into one another so whenever I hear one Christmas song on the radio I expect the next song to come after it and I am always jolted a little when it doesn't come :) I finally bought my own copy this year and now it can really be Christmas at my house.
The Vince Guaraldi Trio's Charlie Brown Christmas album. Just right for background music while wrapping presents.
Wrapping presents!!! I LOVE to wrap Christmas presents. I don't go crazy with bows and ribbon and stuff I just wrap them. Nothing gives me a thrill like turning a big mish-mashed hodge podge of presents into a neat and tidy stack of gifts wrapped in matching paper. Bliss!
Making gifts. I love to make things for people and nothing gives me the push I need to really get it done like the last week before Christmas. And because of that, I will be just as quiet as usual here on the old blog-stead until next Friday or Saturday when everything has been unwrapped and played with and cleaned up.
Have a wonderful Christmas and a blessed New Year!!!
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Merry Christmas, Lindsey, to you and your wonderful family!!!
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Preserving the Harvest 2008
~June 22nd~
*11 half-pints
honey-sweetened peach-strawberry jam
~June 27th~
*7 half-pints and 2 pints
honey-sweetened peach jam
~June 28th~
*24 home-grown chickens in the freezer
(7 whole, 17 cut up
plus feet and backs for stock!!)
~July 6th~
*8 pints and 14 half-pints
honey-sweetened peach jam
~July 16th~
*18 cups fresh green beans,
blanched and frozen (a gift from the boss)
*12 pounds ripe bananas,
cut into 1 inch chunks and frozen for smoothies
~July 22nd~
*32 ears home-grown corn
blanched and frozen in meal-sized packages
~July 27th~
*8 pints cream-style corn
(home grown)
~July~
about *8 cups blackberries
and *5 cups wild blueberries
from around our property,
in the freezer
~August 4th~
14 pints
4 half-pints
and 1 quart
hot and spicy tomato salsa
(that's 18 cups altogether)
~October29th~
13 quarts chunky applesauce
5 quart jars dried apple rings
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Heidi by Johanna Spyri
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
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The Bondwoman's Tale by Hannah Crafts
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At Large and At Small by Anne FadimanHow To Be Good by Nick Hornby
The Book of Joby by Mark FerrariThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
World Without End by Ken FollettAnne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery (for the 12th time or so)
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
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