It’s here. Christmas Eve. To all of you with whom I’ve shared this blogging year, Merry Christmas. May your next year be the best ever. Joy to the world and let’s have a little bit of peace!
Bishop’s ready! Doesn’t he look ready?
It is Christmas Eve. The packages are all wrapped. The pies are baked. The family will be here later, but meanwhile it’s nice and peaceful.
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It looks so festive. Have a wonderful night with your family, Marilyn and Garry! Happy Holidays. xo Judy
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The presents are unwrapped and everyone has gone home. “The Bishop’s Wife” in on the TV and I’m too pooped to move! Made it through another year. That’s our annual miracle … still being here 😉 Hope you’re having a great time, wherever you may be!
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Phoenix. We just finished dinner and birthday cake as our friend’s husband was born on Dec. 14.
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I did the minimum to make it Christmasy. It was all the cooking that finished me off. At least I have enough leftovers to me — and Bob and the kids — going for a few days!
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Loretta Young, wasn’t it? I loved her. What a classy, graceful lady.
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Yes, Loretta Young as “The Bishop’s Wife”, David Niven as the Bishop and Cary Grant as Dudley, the Angel. A sublimely wonderful movie.
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Is it possible to have a better cast???
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I don’t see how 🙂
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I admire your preparedness. I will have to go print off some images of completed holiday preparations and tape them around the house as inspiration–or in substitution for the real thing.
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I kept it very small. It’s a little tree, no lights. A couple of other things, here and there. Blue lights across the windows have been up since LAST Christmas. I did all the wrapping yesterday. Very small. I couldn’t do the whole house decorated thing anymore. I’d collapse. As it is, I’m so tired I can barely move. I’m glad it’s just once a year!
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That is why they invented January and February – months so uninspiring that we can wallow and recover from the indulgences of December.
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Merry Christmas to you and your family Marilyn 🙂
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And to you and yours. Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas to you both!
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And to you 🙂 It’s been quite a year. A better one to come!
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Merry Christmas to you and Garry! I hope you have a great one and a wonderful 2016 🙂
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For all of us, a good year to come 🙂
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Merry Christmas Marilyn and Garry. It’s just after 7am on Christmas Day here. It’s going to be a hot one, 34 degrees celsius. My sister will be here in about 3 hours so we can spend the day together. She’s bringing her DVD of Miracle on 34th Street to watch after lunch. It will be a day of watching Christsmas movies and playing board games. I hope your Christmas is a happy and peaceful one too.
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It’s still Christmas Eve here, so there are the shoals of togetherness with the kids to yet navigate. But tomorrow … Yes, that sounds like our day too. We watched “Miracle” last night, as well as “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “A Christmas Story” is on now, but there’s still Holiday Inn, and White Christmas and a bunch of others. I can hardly wait for a nice quiet day! Merry Christmas, way down there 🙂
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Merry Christmas to you and yours. 🙂
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And you and yours and let’s hear it for peace on earth too!
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Lovely card Marilyn. I am now into Christmas Day. I hope you have a great Christmas Eve and that it stays warmish for you.
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Bob made the card 🙂 Two of them, so the one from the day before was also his 🙂 He does GREAT cards. I did the inscription (obviously, I guess). It’s Christmas day and I’m still full from yesterday!
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Merry Christmas to you and Garry and the furkids, (I love your wrapping choices…). Enjoy, enjoy.
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I feel a sense of relief. It’s the home stretch. We’re alive. In 20 minutes, I put the ham in the over, wash the yams, trim the asparagus, make a salad, then collapse in a heap. Tomorrow will be easy, with the kids all over at HER family. Phew. Merry Christmas!!
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Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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Back at you 🙂 Have a lovely day, a great meal, more than a few laughs and maybe a good movie 🙂
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I just stopped working and my husband is on his way back home. We won’t celebrate Christmas until Monday the 28th. We just postponed it this year -workrelated- and I like it (so far).
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Bishop looks ready for the turkey 🙂
Have a lovely Christmas, both of you 🙂
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Bishop is ALWAYS ready for the turkey 🙂 You too. Have a wonderful holiday. Laugh a lot! Eat too much, too. Maybe a drink or three?
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I can probably oblige you with all of those 😉 x
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Shush, Sue! Bishop and the other furry kids can hear you. Merry Christmas — with hugs!
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Hey, Ani has her eye firmly fixed on the oven… and she’s already had one whole Christmas turkey… I am on alert this year 🙂
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More than once a dog or cat or some combination of these have taken down a turkey … raw and waiting for cooking … and already roasted. I take no chances. I close the kitchen gate and I make them stare holes in me from the living room. They really AREN’T starving. Really. Honest. They just think they are.
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Ani was just an opportunist… she never helps herself to anything on the counters, but seems to think if I leave the fridge door open, anything goes… and it usually does. Though she did once leave me a tennis ball in the fridge in exchange 🙂
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Fair enough. She left you her very FAVORITE thing, so clearly she meant to pay her way. Right? Of course!
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She wanted it back though… after she’d eaten the ham hock… 😉
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