Christmas Memories and Traditions

This year we made lots of memories, with our family. We stayed up late watching movies about compassion for your fellow human being. We got to visit with our family in San Antonio. We visited with my sister, her husband and two boys. The boys were so thrilled with the construction set that Santa brought they forgot all about the electronic toys they got - and just began to build together. It was precious. I gave the doggies in San Antonio each a Scooby snack and lots of love. It had been raining really heavy all night Christmas Eve and was still cool Christmas morning. We spent the night at my brothers and went out to eat at an awesome Chinese restaurant for dinner. The seafood was to die for and the service was great. My brother is going to be moving to the South Pacific soon, so he gave LeLe the gift of a lifetime, a precious red tabby named Kitty. She fell in love with that cat and could not wait to bring him home. We just lost Ruby last week, so it was really nice to be able to have a house full of pets again. It is great to have Alex as a companion, she is such a great doggie, so sweet and so good. Mitten is very loyal and has been sleeping in my room each night this week. I imagine our new little orange lion will be lounging around in LeLe's girl's palace on the sofa listening to music. I just watched the Cowboys and the Eagles game...Philadelphia won, they played very well. After the game was over I was looking for something cheerful and I luckily I got to see a really cool episode of Everybody Hates Chris on CW. It is such a great show. I am so happy that there is a show like this, like regular people, on TV, I really enjoyed it. Later tonight I'd like to go see the lights on 37th Street - I've been wanting to go for weeks but just have been so busy. I have all that I have wished for, a day to be thankful for the gift of forgiveness that Christmas brought the world, thankfulness for a beautiful day today, a great time with my daughter and my family, loving pets and the memory of an absolutely beautiful day today. It is just like a mirror of my life, after the wind died down and the storm cleared there was a beautiful day waiting just on the horizon. I cannot wait for 2007, it is only a week away!