It is Christmas morning and all is quiet at my house. We had Christmas Friday. Tuesday our oldest son and his wife came to town. They left Wednesday morning to help with some construction on a flood damaged house in New Orleans and Mark (9 months old) was left with us. This is the first time they have left him with someone other than a parent over night. So it was a thrill for us to be able to spoil him. He was a delight to have around. What a sweet baby. Everything went quite smoothly considering there was a baby in the house.
Mom and Dad came home on Thursday evening and Mark smiled from ear to ear and hugged his mommy. It was so sweet. Our youngest son dropped off his son Wesley at our house Thursday evening so he could spend the night.
Friday everyone was here to open gifts. After that was done my brother and wife and my beautiful niece and our neighbors came over and we grilled hamburgers and barbecued chicken. Only in the south can you grill out on Christmas. It was so fun having everyone here. The guys played with the toys that Wesley received. It was fun watching them laugh.
My neighbor is an older man who loves to play monopoly. We gave him a fancy monopoly set and so later that evening we played until midnight. He has a teen-age exchange student staying with him from Austria so that was fun playing with him. He has played it before and is pretty good at it.
Everyone left Saturday. It was nice to clean up and get everything back to normal.
There is such materialism in Christmas. I would love to be able to take a vacation with everyone. It is important to me to be with family during this time. I believe we need to remeber God especially at this time and to be with family no matter who or what you think family is. I also believe you need to dwell on God's love and what He has done for you every day of year.
Anyway, those are my feelings and thoughts at this time.
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