A New Year and Decade!!!!

2009 has gone, and along came 2010 and with it a new decade!!! How exciting, but with the new year and new decade we had to finish up the last with lots of fun!!



Christmas brought each one of the boy's and their significant other and family in, along with our sweet, sweet grand daughter and the thrill and wonder only seen through the eye's of a child!! Lot's of wrapping, decorating, and of course cooking going on around here in the last month!! Then alas, the big day Santa came and brought lots of gifts for young and old, but most important the gift of a baby born in a manager to save and free us all, just for the asking!! Oh boy we had a grand ole time, and I will keep these memories as all of us mother's do deep within my
heart.



One thing I did take note of is the unnecessary things that went on around here!! I'm sure most of you reading this will relate!! I have decided to write a list and tuck it in my Christmas decorations so next year when I start pulling it all out I will remember and remember well!!

1) Do not put up so many decoration's!!! You only have to take them all down when you're exhausted!! After all Jesus was born in a lowly stable, and I'm guessing there were not decorations all over the yard, much less 2 or 3 trees in the house and every corner decorated with Santa's!

2) Do not cook an 8 pound ham when you only need a 4 pound!! You'll only end up eating ham until you feel like oinking!!! After all every one will be so tired by the time they get to your house another piece of pork will gag them!! Not to mention the huge pot of Shrimp and grit's...let's go with just a little ham and biscuits!! Somehow I don't remember a feast in the manger scene.

3) And now the gifts...give one thing that's really meaningful, not all the frills and such, a gift from the heart. Jesus didn't get his first gift until he was, what 2 or 3 years old when the wise men arrived.

Yes we had a wonderful Christmas, and now the new year has arrived along with hopes and wishes and notes from the previous year to learn by.

I pray that God will lead me, as well as each and every one of you reading this in the way he would have us to go in this upcoming year and decade and that we will open our hearts to the way he would have us to go!!

Happy New Year and God Bless each and every one of you, for he has already blessed me beyond belief and still has a lot in store!!!!