Merry Christmas - now Happy new Year!

Christmas is over - what a fun time to see the people you love open gifts that you contemplated then hunted for in order to please them. Well, most times it works that way and we hope for the end result to be one of glee. At any rate, "a good time was had by all". On Christmas Eve out neighborhood family (literal family of four houses within two blocks from each other) did a progressive dinner, each host family opening their gifts from our name drawing gift selector. It was great - then we hurried to the Tanderhoff's church for a candlelight service.

Now - I am truly looking forward to my non-Christmas ring tone on my cell phone and once again packing my Christmas "things" away - not to be seen until next year. In the end, it is spending time with family that is the second greatest blessing, second only to the great gift of the Savior provided to us while we were yet sinners and had no cognisance of our need.