New Year's Eve

I will be celebrating New Year's Eve in my customary fashion.  Asleep.  Whatever you do have a good time and stay safe.  

In the olden days when I stll had kids at home we used to stay up with or without friends and at midnight open the front door and broom in hand sweep the old year out. I kind of liked that.  I think I will subsitute sweeping it out in the morning.  This has been a year I'm glad to see the back off in many ways.  I kind of like to start out fresh though so I'm cleaning the heck out of my house yesterday and today. I will drop by for awhile at my kids' house.  They like to play games and gab on New Year's Eve.  New Year's Day I take the Christmas tree down.

I make no resolutions beyond the ones I make every day. Remember to eat breakfast.  Clean something. Keep in touch with faraway friends.  Being grateful I woke up. Go outside and observe the weather rather than looking it up on my phone.  Go for a walk.

I signed up for our local Law Enforcement "Citizens' Academy." It's one night a week, end of January through April.  It's the path to becoming a volunteer at our Police Department, they need someone to help with office stuff, I'm still organized and computer literate and need to get out of the house.  Sounds like a fit.  

May the New Year bring us all peace, joy, good news, good health and prosperity. 

O Holy Night

Merry Christmas to you all.

I think this is my all time favortie Christmas Song.

Twelve Days of Christmas or What's in Your Closet of Memories?

My teeney, smallish, totally fake Christmas tree is up.  It's over 10 years old and still hasn't fallen apart. I was not going to put it until last Monday and thought "why not?"  Caught the Christmas buzz. Two of my grandkids hauled it up from storag along with the boxes marked "small tree decor." They  assembled and decorated it while I made a home made pizza from scratch. That's a Christmas Miracle in itself. I'd forgotten how good homemade tastes and forgotten how much more fun it is to put a tree up with kids. Alrighty then. 

There is a well used, tired angel at the top. It was the tree topper my first husband and I bought for our first Christmas tree. We had just married in September. We were really broke, I worked and he had just gotten a job that started in January. We had a for-real Charlie Brown Christmas tree.  My kids loved her and she's been on the tree ever since whether it was a small or large tree that dwarfed her. They argue about who gets the angel when Ma croaks.

What to do with all those other boxes of Christmas Decorations? Through my former work I had access to a decorative supply company that provided huge discounts on some really lovely things in the era when we had 12' tree in the house.  I haven't been able to give them away but with 11 young grandkids beginning to move out into the world I hope to rehome many to family.

So what's hiding in your holiday closets and memories?