MEMORIES, OLD AND NEW: FOR FRIDAY DECEMBER 16

The Night When Love Was Born Christ the babe comes in Christmas as Christ the Savior comes on the cross - seeking only our embrace. The mystery so large becomes the babe so small and infinite God becomes infant. And if there is no cross in my Christmas, then my Christmas has lost the Christ - What is the manger if not for the Messiah, the One who saves us with the scars? Christmas isn't a product to wrap, but a person to unwrap. Christmas cannot be bought.
Christmas cannot be created. Christmas cannot be made by hand. Christmas can only be found in the creche, in the cradling trough, in the mire and the stench and the unexpected and unlikely and only only in the person of Christ. - Devotional Christmas words by Ann Voskamp

5 year old Kaitlyn Maher sings Away In A Manger - Fox and Friends Christmas Special - YouTube

The Cross in Christmas… » A Holy Experience
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Today was another REALLY BUSY day at work.. most of them are it seems.. then again, it may be in part that we just try really hard to STAY BUSY! THANKFULLY NOW WE ARE OFF FOR TWO WEEKS... (even me... and the Head start) LOL

We had an unwelcome surprise today.. after ordering as usual.. MOST of the 7th graders decided by lunch time that they had just ate to much junk and NOT TO EAT LUNCH...

BUT, we had already cooked it.. (but then that's a different story) we only did what we "thought" we needed to do in order to get ready for lunch.. they just shouldn't have ordered lunches if they weren't going to eat... MAYBE we will remember next year.. (but then watch them all eat (~.*) Oh well

After work we had our little Christmas exchange of gifts.. and a lot of us took in "goodies to munch on" (or Abigail would say "nom on") LOL.. And we enjoyed the fellowship and friendship.. And then I took down our Christmas decorations.. and got out the plain white and blue snowmen that I will be decorating just a little with when we go back Just snowmen for WINTER... A little something for the kids
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Won't be long now until the first day of Winter.. December 22 which is also Jeffery Dean Kimberlin's birthday.. (our second son) Love ya Jeff!
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After work I got my running done, and went to Walmarts and got the 'fixin's for taco's for supper tonight' Then I stopped by and got the kids and just took them up on the creek with me, to save us or them a trip to get them. They had told their granddad last night that they were coming up.. Then they told us later that they "plan on staying up here until Christmas Eve!" LOL We've also got another good little Christmas movie to watch tonight called Christmas in Wonderland .. *unlock the true magic of Christmas* with Patrick Swayze, Tim Curry, Chris Kattan and Carmen Electra... It is a very good "family type movie" the only kind we like..

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