Santa's Workshop

Hmm . . .

Looking around this mess and thinkin'
it looks seriously like Santa's workshop . . .

Must be quite the untidy place at this time of year :)

Thank you dear husband for the newappliance you brought home from work with you last night!
It was awfully hard to make Christmas goodies withoutan oven or stove top!  


















Then what to our wondering eyes did appear!
It's plenty of snow!  Just minus the reindeer . . .





















Now I'm off in a Christmas blizzard -
And after this - I'm hybernating for the next week :)
No more stores for me ;)


Merry Christmas - to all - I'll see ya on the flip side

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Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time . . .

One of these days I'm going to create
a
worthy
blog post again . . .


But,
I'm pretty sure . . .

Not until after the holidays.

I'm simply having a WONDERFUL Christmas time . . .
sewing, baking, wrapping
(and I have simplified by the way - just haven't figured how NOT to bake and wrap . . .)

Meanwhile . . .
This
will make you laugh OUT loud!

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. . . this Christmas . . .

 

 

“This Christmas, mend a quarrel.   

Seek out a forgotten friend.  

 Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust.   

 Write a letter.  

 

 

 

 

 

  

Give a soft answer.   

Encourage youth.   

Manifest your loyalty in word and deed.   

Keep a promise.   

Forgo a grudge.   

Forgive an enemy.   

Apologize. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try to understand.  

 Examine your demands on others.   

Think first of someone else. 

Be kind.   

Be gentle. 

 

 

 

 

Laugh a little more. 

Express your gratitude.   

Welcome a stranger.   

Gladden the heart of a child.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth.   

Speak your love and then speak it again. "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Howard W. Hunter

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What Shall we Give?

Learn from President Monson 

and the Tabernacle Choir 

about the true gifts of Christmas.

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Whatcha ma call it! ~~ Benign Deprivation ~~

Sooooo . . .
That's what you call it!

My husband and I have always had this deep and abiding principle
down deep in our hearts
that we've tried to adhere to throughout our years
of child raising

We never could quite put  words to it,
and sometimes we were VERY tempted
to stray . . .

Like when my daughter was graduating from high school
and all the OTHER friends were getting new cars
full rides to college . . .

Like when the boys wanted the lastest and greatest
new gaming systems . . .

Yesterday I learned a NEW principle
the principle of
Benign Deprivation(try saying that 3 times fast:)for the complete principlesee my Wool Gathering sidebar

and I can honestly say that over the years
it's a principle
"that has made all the difference"

there is much to be learned through
hard work and obedience
through
"doing it on their own"

overcoming difficulty at school,
with peers,
financial problems . . .

It's a good thought
to remember . . .

at Christmas time . . .

(I just had to throw some chocolate in there somewhere!)

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My Challenge . . .

To simplify Christmas this year . . .

I'm really going to do it.

I am.

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