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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Its that time of season!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Garland, lights, bulbs, tree, wooden reindeer, and other trinkets from trunks hidden in their summer slumber, all awakened again for a season of love, adoration, family, giving and friendship. Its Christmas time again!

Deck! The halls with boughs of Holly!

I am writing this before Thanksgiving because its the season. I personally cannot stand the tree only being up for three weeks. This year with the kids being here, we have decided to leave it nearly bare, and allow them to decorate it. Plans to get them from their mothers this week are made, three hotel rooms, two kids, and one rental car.. I could nearly make a 12 days of Christmas out of anything.

Yule tide carols being sung by a choir..

Memories of singing this for my grandmother when I was a child, bring a smile to my face. I remember my aunt being so excited and my grandmother clapping so proudly. My grandfather with his Christmas cocktail in one hand and a grand kid on the other. He would have loved this Christmas, of course every year he would have loved.

Me.. I want a hula hoop!

My wife is bouncing around the house, there goes the Cardinals world series coke bottles from 82, back in the box until next year. I am so ready for another season, what a disappointment they were to us all. Hoping to have some cool stuff this year, I have included Cardinals fans, a letter to Santa asking for a new offense and better pitching to best the MLB next season.

I'll be home for Christmas...

This year will be different, my brother will be here. He hasn't had a big Christmas I do not think since, well ever. Last year we had presents everywhere, and of course I cannot speak to the volume he experienced, this year will definitely be great. 

Oh the weather outside is frightful..

Snow flurries forecast for tonight, I am so excited, I think we are going to all run to the window and smudge our faces like little children with not a care in the world, the most exciting part of Christmas is the snow, and being close to someone you love, warm and secure.

Have a holly jolly Christmas!

It really is the best time of the year, there will be snow, and mistletoe, along with the feeling of giving. Christmas specials on t.v. and the one time of the year my wife dreads, the vintage version of Santa Claus with Dudley Moore and John Lithgow, What a great movie! Yes it's old, and yes it may be what you kids call "corny" but I think its great and I am reveled at the thought of my father waking me up to watch it on Christmas eve as a child, then we would leave a bowl of sugar and carrots for the reindeer. 

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock..

To all of you who are still in your grinch like state, get out and feel this. Its all around this year. I hear people from left to right complain how the lights are on too early and the trees lit too soon. I think personally that we have suffered enough warm un-like temperatures in the last couple years, everyone was looking forward to getting Christmas started.

I really must go..

It is ridiculously cold outside, almost unbearable. Make sure to give back this season, you never know who needs it more than you. This year my whole thought and hope has been to give back, and to pay it forward to those who need it the most. Knowing, is the first part of giving. Be merry everyone, and give with your hearts, love in your soul and may everyone have a blessed holiday season.

Bells will be ringing, the glad, glad news..