Dear Reader:

Slowly but surely my “Happy Room” is starting to feel and fill up with Christmas joy…There are still a few things left (like getting the Christmas tree with Kaitlyn and Tommy last evening) but overall I am almost there….just going with the Christmas flow!

Every year I choose one Christmas keepsake to add on to the collection…this year I found it at Rite-Aid (where they already have their Christmas items marked down by 50%!)

This Christmas train is very special…it is an Advent Christmas train with 25 drawers (that pull out) to put keepsakes or little notes in as Christmas approaches. *I put a Happy Birthday message in the third drawer in my brother, David’s memory. I think the grand children will have fun playing with the keepsake.

Here are some other shots of different decorations around the house…”It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” (And feeling like it too finally!)

I then had to run into town to pick up something that was being cleaned and polished at Dorchester Jewelers…I really got in the Christmas spirit…so much so that I went to Guerin’s Pharmacy for their fabulous hot dog for lunch…sometimes a gal just has to have a hot dog with chili…all the works!

The cutest gift of all was in line beside me to check out at Pet Co…I asked her mother, Krystal Lawson, if I could take a picture of the best Christmas present seen yesterday and she laughed and said, ‘Of course.’

Isn’t it wonderful that we can find Christmas everywhere we go…if we just take the time to look?

I gave the church with silhouetted people moving through the Christmas Eve service to Dee-Dee (Miriam Dingle) many Christmases ago…after she passed Doodle told me that she thought I should have it…I now put it on a bedside table and enjoy watching the people go by. I, especially, enjoy remembering my Dee-Dee….truly my “mother-in-love.”

Yesterday, while Ernie and I were putting up the lights around the porch…he accidentally leaned in and the stem on “Big Red” (that was already slightly damaged)…snapped…and pulled completely out of the dirt.

Ernie felt terrible but I assured him that it was just a matter of time before it would have happened and look at the bloom “Big Red” produced before losing that “appendage.”

I took it inside and put it in a bright red vase…the bloom is still brightly shining and now lots of bud clusters are appearing daily on the rest of the plant…the lesson I suppose is that sometimes we have to cut our losses to discover the potential treasures hidden  from view.

So until tomorrow….Look for Christmas under every nook and corner…because it’s there…it’s always there.

“Today is my favorite day”  Winnie the pooh

I will pause the post here….because it will soon be time for Tommy and Kaitlyn to meet me for supper and then go pick out a Christmas tree….be back in a little while…

Tommy and Kaitlyn met me at Lowe’s and by the time they arrived I had already picked out a winner…they all agreed quickly with my selection (it was cold in that tree lot)…The tree was bagged…put on the truck and we headed to the Continental Corner for some nourishment before decorating the Christmas tree.

Many hands make  light work…by 9:00 the tree was up, lights on, and decorations twinkling from the branches. Thanks Tommy and Kaitlyn!

Today Honey, Mike, and I will be at the annual Christmas celebration for friends living with MS. It is always fun and so good to see everyone again. I feel a story coming on….

Before signing off…I got a text from Kaitlyn saying that my three grand-dogs all enjoyed their early Christmas presents….Rudy with his Christmas bear and Pip with his Christmas collar.

It’s finally here…like Christmas there is always much anticipation… and now the waiting is over….Honey’s Holiday Pottery Sale…Tomorrow at 111 Ayers Circle from 9 to 3. Hope to see many of you there so we can catch up! Come on…Come all!