And a happy new year

We had a great Christmas.  There is something so nice about Christmas being on Sunday.   You have a candlelight service and sing songs to God.  It just makes the day so much better.  People you haven't seen for awhile come to church and you catch up on things.  Then you go home and have a happy lunch time with those you love.  Our son made most of our lunch while we were at church how nice.  We had opened our presents before Church h so it was very restful after that/.  Calls from all over, Thank you for sharing your birthday Jesus.
My husband did his usual thing and made me promise I would not get him anything and he would do the same.  He of course bought for me and I of course bought for him.  I think it's becoming a tradition .
For some unknown reason I started to give our children and then grandchildren pj's, a lifesaver book, and duck tape for their stockings.  I didn't do that this year and boy did I hear about it.  Especially the duck tape.  I get pastel for the girls and black for the boys.  I guess we will be making another box and sending it out
We were a little neglectful of our usual giving to the needy or alone.  We only did it for two people this year.  Our son has this thing of picking out a couple when he and his wife go out on date night and they pay for their dinner without letting them know. He is so happy when he tells us their latest giving.  we really raised some wonderful boys.  I am so proud of them. 
I took the tree down last night and our village down this morning the house looks so much better.  Isn't it funny how nice it looks when you put it up and how nice it looks when you take it down. 
Hope you had a blessed Christmas and that this new year will bring prosperity enough, employment enough, comfort enough, but most of all love enough to see you through.    Luv ya all  Sass


  

I have really messed this up

People who are computer challenged should not be allowed to play with all the gadgets and stuff in this blog.  I can't find anything anymore.  It took me five minutes to figure out how to get to new posts.  When I get through with this I am going to try and simplify it again, but I don't want to go out until I have finished because I am not sure I could find this again. 
Are you ready for christmas?  Ours is going to be no fun this year so I am ready for it to be over.  The only things that I looked  forward to are over so let it come and go. the 1st Baptist church, which is huge, takes over the civic center for a long weekend and puts on the most wonderful plays every year for the public for free. It is hard to believe the city still lets a religious play have center stage in the city but I truly believe if they didn't there would be such an uproar and many of leading citizens would be out of a job.  It is a tradition that I hope will go on forever.  This year they did Scrooge with a religious twist.  It was a little long (three hours) but worth every bit.  I also look forward to giving some presents to friends and loved ones.  That is pretty much done.  I was thinking that we give to a very interesting group. A couple who have been so good to us and always there when we need them.  A friend  and her brother who has a big family but they don't come to see her very often.  She is like a sister to me.  You know she is one of those friends you can call any time any day and she will be there.  Then we buy for two of our sons friends.  They are both alone and in their 40's.  It just seems like they would be lonely so we kind of adopt them.  Our son is always teasing us that we will end up with a whole house full of kids again if we're nto careful. We will have christmas with our son and then he will be moving to Nashville Tn. the first of the year.  We will miss him, but he has to move on and grow.  Our other son lives in colorado with his family and they want to be in their new house for the first christmas at their home.  We understand that and so we sent boxes to them and will talk on christmas morning.  We only have two grandchildren and they are at the age that they want to be with their friends. 
I wrote a short play a couple of years ago.  The only character in it was Santa.He talked sbout why he almost wasn't going to do Christmas that year because of all the termoil in the world.and how people have gone overboard on expecting things..  Then God spoke to him and told him he had to keep doing his job because he wss the spirit of giving and after all that was why God gave us the baby in the first place. I never let anyone do that play for some reason.  It is still my favorite   Maybe I will put it in here some day and let you be the judge of whether I should have a church do it.  
Well, I will quit rambleing and try to fix the layouts .  wish me luck. If I forget to tell you Merry christmas yes Merry birth of Jesus.  We are to love our neightbors as we love ourselvies.  So Luv ya Sass

Today is the day

 It's the day of the Christmas play.  The strange thing is I am not nervous at all.  I don't know if that is good or bad.  I reallly think it will be ok.  If I can just get everyone on the stage at the proper time.  enjoy it and let the chips fall where they may. 
Angels in the classroom.  Don't know how I came up with that.  Each angel goes to a class and finds out what department they will be in.  One goes to the garden of prayer, one is a greeter at the gate, one is in the heavenly choir, and one will be flying down and bringing up the new angels.  They need to go through the initial class in order to help make their decision and to find out where everything is.  I tired to put humor throughout the whole thing.  I hope it works. 
Well time to make the doughnuts as the saying goes.  I will let you know if it is a hit or not. 
Sasd