JYC December 1, 2012

A Pledge to Journal

I pledge to journal during this Christmas season!

It's a commitment I am making to journal each day during the Christmas season.  For several years I have received the Journal Your Christmas prompts from shimelle.com.  I have wanted and planned to create a scrapbook entry each day but it just hasn't happened.  I'm not sure why but life gets busy and then all of a sudden I'm not creating an entry.  So this year I have decided to blog my journal entries.  Hopefully after Christmas I can create a scrapbook from the blog entries.

I love photography and hope to capture the season in pictures. 

The written word is so important.  Or more importantly just getting your thoughts in writing to reflect back on.  I love reading something from previous letters or journals or notes from years past.  And if I don't write it down I am likely to forget.  Just this week I received a package from my cousin with pictures of my dad and a letter he had written to her in 1944 while he was in Europe serving in WWII.  I appreciate her willingness to share that with me.  It gave me a peek into his life when he was just 21 years old and a very long way from home. 

This picture was taken today when we were taking the photo for our annual Christmas card.  That is always a fiasco trying to get a good picture of the 5 of us in the same picture.  But I think it is done.  Now just to order them and get them either in the mail or in mail slots at church.

Anticipating Christmas 2012 means:

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Noel

Cantata

Handbells

Ornaments

Baking cookies

Advent candles

Sunday desserts
Living Nativity

Christmas dinner

Lindsay turns 50!

Trimming the tree

Christmas movies

Children's program

Go see Lincoln movie

Christmas mother gifts

Christmas Eve cooking

Christmas Eve services

Gift exchange at church

Snaonetla on the mantle
Trans Siberian Orchestra

Jay's homemade scrabble

Wrap-a-thon at Jay's office

Christmas morning service

"Pig Out Day" at the office

Christmas with my brothers
Christmas dinner at Bonnie's

New pajamas on Christmas Eve

Going to the play with the Ryan's

Taking of the Christmas card photo

Watching the pope on Christmas Eve
Kathleen's 23rd birthday on 12/12/12

Christmas with Sam, Patti & Mitchell

Grandma and Grandpa come for Christmas

Family

Peace

Love

 

Christmas ornaments:

 

The time has come to write down the story behind some of our Christmas ornaments.  While it has always been a goal to do that today it is going to become reality. 

 

 

I cross stitched this ornament in 1985 the first year we were married.  It always goes front and center of the family room tree.  It's a favorite ornament for what it stands for.