Hi Guys,
Well the tree and the boxes are up stairs, not without a whole lot of huffing and puffing! Putting up a 7 1/2 foot tree in a room with an 8ft ceiling is not good! The star is awfully crooked and I just don’t have the will to fix it. ( Maybe I should have put up the Manger and prayed before putting the star on!) Took me 4 hours to fix the lights, I loaned it to the FWB last year and this was how I got it back, never again!! The tree has 3 ornaments on it. One is from the "Wizard of Oz", The seen where they melt the witch in the castle. Press the button and it has the dialog from the movie, "I’m melting. melting!" what in the world does this have to do with Christmas, heck I don’t know! But it was a gift and I love it!
Went to dinner with my brother with my gift card. We went back to his house and he was looking at an old video tape. There was one of my dad holding my niece as a newborn. So sweet! My dad loved the babies! He was rocking her, telling her how my (then) one year old niece would tear up the house and how she would be joining her soon. My brother was a bit choked up, first time seeing and hearing my dad since he past away in 2000. I told him I looked at the one of my brothers wedding with both dad and my brother alive and laughing and bawled my eyes out. I didn’t tell him I drank a whole bottle of rum when I watched the video.
He called me later to say he had found one from 1989, Christmas with the whole family. That may have been one of the only times we were all together. I suggested showing it Christmas Eve but he thought it might be too upsetting. Maybe we all need a good cry, and a wonderful reminder of the good times we had when we were young!
need to sleep!
peace
bettie
