After Christmas Sunday

Dear Family and Friends...
Yes, we have enjoyed the Christmas Celebration and Eric just left this afternoon. We had a great time together and miss him already. Christmas was
low key this year...but we really enjoyed what we did do....and just spending time together is the best anyway.
We are hoping that you all had a equally happy time with your family and that you are catching up with your rest now too. I did alot of cooking and baking and it is nice to now have alot of food that we don't have to prepare...munching and gaining weight now...back to walking etc...and weights very soon...like tomorrow.
Hugs & Prayers,
BJM

This is great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFrdJ2V3r7Y

Dear Family and Friends..


This is what I would like to do for longer periods of time during the winter...hibernate...! But the on coming Christmas season won't permit it...so we must tread on. Today I will get my Christmas tree up and start decorating if I am lucky. I have 2 days off in a row and must make it count.


This year if the weather co-operates enough...both of my children will be home for the Holiday...for 3 or 4 days at least. It has been at least 7 or 8 years since they have both been under the same roof at that time here at our home and I am so very anxious that something is going to stop this amazing holiday from happening. Be sending good thoughts about it all...and I hope to be able to spend at least one or 2 days with them before they fly away again into their lives and things they need to do...! Such is the saga of many parents here in Siskiyou county because of alot of harsh factors that play into the scene here. We really don't want our families on the roads when it is bad out there...but if it all happens it is a wonderful miracle!


Since last month...We celebrated Thanksgiving with our relative


Steve and Debbie and her sister Linda in Grass Valley! A very fun weekend eating tons of food and See's candy...going to the Craft fair...and Thrift stores... We had a blast and enjoyed all three of our little baby doggies...they all got along really well. Poor Dukie is getting over 2 surgeries still and Little Jake is a real trooper..as he can't walk as he is paralized from the waist down. Linda is such a good mommy...and does everything for him. Jake is a love!


I am getting ready for the Yearly Candlelighting Ceremony this year at Jackson Street School. It is a big thing to prepare for..getting a speaker, special music, sending invitations, making sure all the bases are covered and trying to make it so everyone feels alittle better about this time of year without our children that have died much too soon. I always feel like afterwards that I am much more mentally prepared to enjoy the fun of the holidays after we have gone through this Ceremony. December 13th @ 7pm is when you light a candle for your loved one. It is a continual wave of light around the world D~~starting from Austrailia...in each time zone @ 7:00 pm...and it travels around the globe. How awesome is that! what a giant Tribute to our babies!


Well, much to do today...probably will enter more here sooner than a month or so. I am just very slow about getting around to my blogging...I am always working or home doing things.


Hugs & Prayers to you all....and Merry Christmas & Happy New year also!


BJM