Your lights look wonderful!

For each of us Christmas brings with it many different thoughts or memories.

It brings with it happiness in all sorts of ways even some without us even thinking about it it just happens.

It brings with it friendships renewed and family gathering along with all the gifts we collect over many months.

For me, Christmas brings happy memories as each year I unpack the little manger you see in this photograph.

I made this one night in 1965 when I was on military active service. I was on a rest period and had found a square of board so using my combat knife I spent some time cutting and shaping this little thing designing it so it was flat packed as I was due home late December.

Sadly my young baby daughter did not get to see it so each year I set it out in her memory.

Now I don't want readers to feel sorry for me that is not the reason for me posting I want you to understand my joy and pleasure in keeping her memory alive like this.

We all have our reasons for doing things whatever the things may be and this is my reason for doing the lighting display and setting out my little manger or crib.

This makes my Christmas a happy event and that's the way it should be.

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Jeanie i am thinking about you and hoping all went well, can't wait until you are able to come back for an update..

Jeannie I hope your okay! Im starting to get concerned we havent heard anything from you yet. Hopefully you are just recovering and there arent any complications. Let us know your okay when you can. We miss your bright and cheerful personality on here and are hoping all is well. I hope your Tibbs and your family are giving you alot of attention right now.

Thoughts and Hugs

Lisa

I'm back online today. Lost some blood and have a hematocrit of 7.7 and have been running a low grade fever they just can't trace any origen of - have been to ER couuple of times to get fluids and x-rays and get checked out - so have been pretty weak and unlike doing anything much at all. It's all I can do to do what I have to, my exercises, eat, wash-up, etc., and then I just want to cocoon, but you can't due to the schedule they have me on. I didn't want to take a transfusion so am trying to build bloodcount back up with iron and food but have NO appetite. The home nurses stay on me pretty good with f/u and are out daily and between them and my son and neighbors am pretty well looked after. But I feel pretty punk right now. Thank you all for your lovely prayers and thoughts- I felt them many times and still do. I was such a joy today to just get out the computer and see YorkieTalk. You all made me feel better just reading your posts. God bless you all. Am doing to take a little break right now and get some rest and then it is "exercise" time - and that is a painful job, let me tell you! Back later and I need to get caught up on what has been going on. Excuse typos as I am on this pain rx and it makes me pretty crazy! Love you all! Jeanie

Low blood count and low grade fever on top of the surgery would make anyone feel really bad. Sending prayers you are better soon.

Jeanie i hope you are doing better...thinking of you

Just want to extend my thoughts to you Jeanie. Hope you are feeling a bit better.

Me, too. It's not the same without you, Jeanie.:)

Last night we started decorating the tree. The pups of course had to get involved in the todo. Even the cat jumped up on the dining froom table to explore the baubles.

I love how the tree looks and smells. Of course all lower branches are empty of decor...we all know why. lol

Today is some more Xmas shopping, and then off in the early evening to look at the pictures we had done, and hopefully select some photos :-)

Must remember to buy some more candles too.

Jeannie Im glad to see you posting although I know you arent feeling your best

I get all Alexa Raes teacher gifts together today and got the cupcakes and other things that she needed for her party on Friday. I will be getting my layaways out on Saturday then wrapping gifts. Then I have My neice and my son to buy for then done. MY neice I know what Im getting though and my son is getting gift cards so its simple. Im also going to pick up some small things for our mailman and exterminator. So all in all on Saturday I will be done. I would have been done by now but the main monthly check my husband gets didnt get here yet which seems to happen every year at this time, Oh well I hope everyone is getting done

I still need to buy for 1 more...LOL i will get them wrapped by Christmas eve :D

Just nipped in for a few mins. today to see what's up. Need to get a better way to sit with my new hip and use my laptop - so keeping online activity to minimum til get a laptop desk or something. I've got one more gift to buy and wrap and a check to write and I will be done with shopping. Bought one of those Pet Riders for my son the other day on the phone and it was this automatic ordering thing that would not let you off the phone without offering you another deal for like 20 minutes and I was afraid to hang up for fear my order was not finished plus hadn't told them I wanted a 2nd for just the extra shipping but when it said I had automatically won a trip to the Bahamas or somewhere and automatically transferred me to the travel site, I did hang up once the guy told me he could not transfer me back to the Pet Rider line. I just hope I get the Pet Rider thing at all now as they are no doubt going to charge my credit card for it! I got no order# or confirmation# or anything! I just hope it is on the up and up! Oh, well. Next year I can go shop in stores the old fashioned way and forego phone ordering! Anybody have any decorating pix to share?

Jeanie i just bought a laptop desk holder /light last week and it is pretty neat..

So glad you are feeling better

I walked through that dept at Wal-Mart and they had a bunch of different kind of laptop desks - some on rollers that you could pull over your chair.:)