Christmas is coming . . . soon. . . .
The best gift at Christmas was wrapped in swaddling clothes. . . .


I finished all the shopping for the Angel Tree gifts and bought the gift bags and tissue paper so tomorrow after church will be busy getting those all ready to deliver on Tuesday afternoon.  Eight families and 42 presents so will have a car full.  Angel Tree provides Christian booklets to be given to each child as well - age related.


Will help organize the shopping and sorting of food for five families to be delivered Wednesday afternoon.  LOVE INC. provides the names, I contacted all of them and two of them cried as I told them we would be delivering food for their families on Wednesday.  Our church school kids raised enough money to buy the perishables, turkey, ham, hamburger, bread, milk oranges, apples, spaghetti and spaghetti sauce plus canned fruit and vegetables, canned soup, potatoes and an apple pie.  They will all be blessed with Christian booklets & Bibles as well. The school kids are even going to help me shop and sort the food plus may even help deliver!  What a joy it is to see our church school teaming up for these community service projects.  The 4-H club that meets at church is helping too so will have many hands helping!


This is what makes Christmas special!  Plus I love the shopping for the volunteers who donate but don't like the shopping part.


Have some shopping to do for family members but thanks to Julie who is my personal shopper for her family - it makes it much easier. So I have very few to buy and look forward to doing that Monday.  Love the last minute hustle and bustle with chilly  weather and Christmas music everywhere.


Plus I scheduled a massage for Monday at 3 p.m. so will be all ready for the busy week delivering gifts and food. 

Put Larry to work stamping and sealing envelopes to get our Christmas letters out before the last mail pick up today - so hopefully everyone will receive our Christmas letter by Wednesday or so -


Have a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!