Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Getting ready for the family dinner. I can't wait. I love the holiday season and the gathering of the family members. We have a wonderful time, eating and gathering around the Christmas tree and opening up the persents. The fireplace glows and the small kids run around and the bird sings and the puppies get so excited with the kids. It is a fun time. I started to do some of the cooking already. I have to do it in steps because I make so much food that I need to do it this way to make room to cook it. I make turkey breast and then I make a huge 20 lb. turkey as well.
We have potatoes mashed and sweet potatoes and green beans, and corn and salad and rolls, and polish sausage with peppers and onions. also we have o' dores and chips and dips and desserts of all sorts.

My family love to eat then we open up the gifts and play games or just sit around the fireplace and talk and laugh and then everyone kind falls asleep. But it is fun. When everyone leaves it is so darn quiet I hate it. I miss the noise but having two families they have to go to the other families.

The christmas time to family time. Isn't it wonderful to have this time together. This year is another year without my daughter in law who passed away. We still miss her and always have her on our mind at this time. We went to the grave site and put her wreath on with her cross and a picture of my grandson. We always talk to her and she knows she is remembered. Well this is my entry for the holiday so to everyone I want to say Merry Christmas to you all and have a wonderful holiday season. Keep God in your heart. From my home to yours I send you many hugs.

Christmas shopping

You know I hate to think of only shopping for the holidays. I love everything else that goes with it. Like baking and decorating and just the feeling of the Christmas spirit.

This year for some reason, I have lost some of that feeling.Why I don't know but it just isn't the same. Maybe as you get older things change but I just don't have the same feeling as the past Christmass.

The presents are less this year and the baking is not going as planned. Very little decorating as well. The Christmas spirit just isn't there in full force.

Went shopping today and I just couldn't get into it so we came home with very little. I don't like feeling this way but it is just the way it is this year. I sent out gifts for my family that isn't close to us and didn't even wrap them. I put them into a box and put a little tissue paper around the gifts. Shipping is so expensive so this saved me some money on the shipping part.

Only spot lights on the out side of home noting else. Well a wreath on the front door with a red box. I didn't feel like doing anything else.
I wonder if I am alittle down in the dumps and this reflects the feeling for the holiday season? could be I guess. Oh well maybe by the month of Jan. when I really get down I may be able to pick myself up. I hope so. I love to listen to the Christmas music thats nice but everything else, nothing. I hate to be so sad but it could be that our year has been the pits. Only had illness after illness and now with my feeling so darn bad with pain this could be why I feel this way.

It helps to talk about it but then after I am down writing this down I get back into the down spiral feeling once again.
I need something good to happen to me and maybe I can get out of this depression.

Well I talked enough and nothing sounds right so I better sign off before I really get sadden more than I am already.
I hope everyone else is in a better place than I feel. I will sincerely hope so and pray for all so you don't get to feel like me. I need a hug so from me to you I send you a big hug. Have a good one and God bless.

Merry Christmas to you all.

CHRISTMAS IS COMING

As my grandson sails down the river in his Uncle's boat, I am thinking about Christmas. All of the baking, decorating and everything else that comes with the holidays.
Zach, my grandson, loves the outdoors so I try to buy him things he could use in the spring again as he loves to go in the boat and swim in the river.
But today was 28 degrees and a little snow so I thought what better picture to put up than a nice spring one. LOL. It keeps the cold weather alittle warmer only in spirit.
This Christmas we were going up my daughters home but due to my hubby having treatments for cancer we thought we should stay close to home. So we will have
Christmas at my home. We will have to make the best of the space and everything else. The family has grown so and the home stays the same size. Darn it, wish I was rich so I could have a kitchen 30 feet long and a dinning room 35 feet long so I would have so much space for all of them without bumping into each other. But not rich in money but so rich in so many other ways.
I started my baking already but did alitte decorating but not as much as before. I thought this year I would keep it down. Too much work on my hubby so we will use only spot lights. That will make it okay for now.

The homes on the street are starting to get lit up with lights all over so we will enjoy them as if they were our own. Everyone does so much but they are younger in age and that makes a difference.
Christmas is so wonderful I wish it would last all year around but it doesn't boo hoo wish it would.
Our priest at church collects santas and he decorates the whole church with his collection. He has over 3000 santas from all over the world. Alot of Italy where he is from but alot from Germany as well. They knew how to make santas thats for sure in those countries.
Well everyone I wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. I HOPE you all have a great holiday season and God bless everyone. From my home to yours I send you many hugs. this is JoAnne saying Have a good one.