Countdown to Christmas - 1 Day to Go

Here is the poem my husband wrote to accompany our Christmas cards this year.

A walk on a Sunday around the lake

A spring-like Sunday – two/twenty-eight

A nostalgic talk of days before

In Columbia, home, from ‘74

Until we moved in twenty-oh-three

Naïve to the adventure that was to be

In building a house remote, all alone

And living there ten years and making it home

Plowing the driveway, sawing trees

It was fun (somewhat) but hard to see

How it would work out for the decades to come

With groundhog, deer and borer bee scrum

So four months post Lake Kittamaqundi

We downsized and sold everything sundry 

Including the house and everything in it

Moved back to Columbia in what seemed like a minute

We’re liking it here in a CCRC*

Intellectually, we know it’s the place to be

All that’s left is for feelings to match

For our stomachs, eventually, our brains to catch

Last year gave no clue we’d make this move

Nothing is certain, this seems to prove

So we’ll live the adventure of this new life stage

Who knows what surprises are on the next page?

We hope and wish that your ‘17

Is a time of enjoyment and pleasures keen

Best wishes to you for all the best

For joy and happiness in your daily quests

Consider this my Christmas card to you.

* continuing care retirement community

Countdown to Christmas - 2 Days to Go

Nice deep window sills here at our apartment are great for display especially at Christmas time.

A nativity made by my sister in law.  She loves to make baskets.

One purchased made of olive wood.

The next two were made by my daughters when they were very young.

They have to go up every year.

This nesting doll set was painted by my mother.  One year the baby Jesus went missing and I thought my granddaughter or great nephew had played with it and lost it.  It showed up the next year nestled in the nativity shown in my first photo.

Countdown to Christmas - 4 Days to Go

Once in Royal David's city stood a lowly cattle shed

where a mother laid her baby

with a manger for his head

Mary was that mother mild

Jesus Christ, her little child.

Countdown to Christmas - 7 Days to Go

Two more nativity sets.