Merry Christmas To You All!!

Merry Christmas, everyone!!

The time of preparation and waiting is over!

And what a wonderful day our Lord has blessed us with!

Yesterday, our Advent Tree bloomed into a Christmas Tree!!

It’s filled with our kids Boyd’s Bear ornaments and sparkling stars, which our kids made many years ago. Our tree has been “baby proof” for several years now and I’ve grown quite fond of the paper stars and teddy bears! 😉

This morning, 3 presents for each of our 9 kids (3 gifts each – in honor of the gifts of the Wisemen) surrounded our Christmas tree and the most important present of all lay in our wooden manger.

Jesus wore a bow and a tag that read:

We also were blessed with a white Christmas!! We haven’t had one of those for 10 years.

The snow started late Christmas Eve, and created a bit of a concern as to our ability to get to Mass in the morning. By the Grace of God we had no problem getting our 15 passenger, rear-wheel drive, maxi van out of the snow covered drive way!