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Merry
Christmas to you and Season’s Good Cheer!
Glad Holiday Tidings and Happy New
Year!
Hope your gifts are all wrapped - Your
yule log ignited.
That each Christmas carole – finds you simply delighted.
This year just flew by as most of them do
–
(The older we get- this is even more true).
The
theme for this greeting is to break from the stressing –
and just take a moment
to count a few blessings.
Kayla moved twice and Kirk audibly
groaned.
And now Prior Lake is where she’s calling home.
That BS in Science, is serving her well.
What she does at her work - we can’t fathom (or spell).
She plays hockey each week and frolics at
night.
She’s still weeding out wrongs - to find her Mr. Right.
On Halloween, at a party for work, she
thought,
“There’ll be tons of Mileys! I’m NOT gonna Twerk.”
She packed up some clothes on a trip here
back home,
and then won the contest - as a pretty good gnome.
Kirstin graduated, from the college in
May –
She’s an RN now and sees patients each day.
Ben is in the health care field, too –
Working full-time on the ambulance crew.
In February their family grew bigger by
one -
when Audrey arrived (and oh! Is she fun!).
A few teeth are coming and she’s standing
a while.
She plays and she talks and she’s loaded with smiles.
We just got the news that they’re having
another –
In June Audrey will get a sister or brother.
At the end of last year, they gave Kyle a
hat –
with a tassel, and gown (We photographed that!).
We had a party with cake, and had folks
for some chow.
He’s taking classes at BSU now.
He’ll learn to balance the fun and the
tests.
It’s his first finals season - we hope for the best. :0)
After 16 years of watching hockey and
such –
it feels pretty darned weird we’re not running so much.
Kirk survived this year’s Thanksgiving
sale. '
The crowd for the most part behaved pretty well.
They bought gadgets, and toys and games
and TVs.
The kids and I went (cuz it’s somethin’ to see).
Besides without Kirk, we agreed, “Let’s
feast later.”
On the weekend we chowed on our turkey and
taters.
He and a friend (who does the same job) -
will ice
fish after Christmas to forget all those mobs.
They’re already planning the trip-it’s
locked in.
(And I think they’ll be packing a little
Captain).
Lots of places still publish the things that
I write.
I do it from home – I write some days, some nights.
I do stories and features, some columns,
a blog.
This Christmas letter I do yearly, with nog.
I spend time with Audrey when they need a
hand.
Kirk and I both love to see her,
whenever we can.
It’s a delight to see our crew grow a
bit…
we have room for lots more and look forward to it.
Our biggest blessing, this year we both
know -
Is we’re lucky to have our kids all pretty close.
It looks like at Christmas we should all
be together –
Just crossing my fingers for no winter weather.
I’m so blessed to be a mom, grandma and
wife;
I turned 50 this year, it’s a pretty great life.
There are many blessings to count this
time of year.
I hope that you, too, have the ones you love near.
I hope your fruit cake is fresh and your
ham is delicious,
that you realize each one of your holiday wishes.
That your ribbons and wrapping, match
each other fine –
And that Christmas is truly- a magical time.
Love,
Sheila
and Kirk
