Christmas Eve...only 6 more days

I feel so unready for Christmas this year, so many things I wanted to do and make for people...just not happening. I just have to remind myself that what is really important is the time we spend with our loved ones, family and friends...that is what is so lovely about Christmas. Not what you did or didn't make, or buy or finish decorating or how many cookies you baked...it's the time you took to be with the people who have given of themselves in your life.

So, here's to all of you who have been so wonderful and kind to me and my family, may you have a blessed and Merry Christmas!

Does everything have to have a picture...

When I look at some websites and blogs that are out there, or when I look at a lovely book with beautiful illustrations or pictures I realize that a picture is worth more than a thousand words. Pictures, colors, scenes are feelings, memories, laughter, tears...that's what a picture is to me. It's amazing how a certain scene, color or picture can give you a physical response.

I look at a picture of someone riding a horse through a field and it puts a smile on my face and gives me just a twinge of jealousy. I see a picture of a baby with little fat rolls and it gives me that wistful, kind of "I miss that" feeling about my own babies (who are now 11 and 14...sigh). A picture of a luscious dark chocolate anything and my mouth waters and my head starts spinning...do I have the ingredients to make that?

I don't have a picture for my post today, no, nothing. I wonder if anyone really enjoys reading it with no picture...what if I were to veto pictures on my blog, I think it would be difficult to follow, even for me.