If only Christmas could last the year…
Merry Christmas and blessings to you as you shop for just the right gift for a loved one. If only the season of kindness, Christmas music and smiles could last year round. Karoline and I were having lunch recently, enjoying the Christmas music as much as the food. Decorations are pretty with lights of many colors that brighten any place about town.
Don’t you love the Christmas church banquets and ladies Church parties? Uncle Bill’s in Crestview catered our banquet and the food was delicious. On Friday night the ladies met at the Brannon’s home with our salad dishes. We can pack as many calories into salad dishes as a dinner menu, but it sounds slimmer!
Chocolate! This is the chocolate time of the year, and I am so undisciplined! Why do they keep candy bars (Snickers) alongside the registers in grocery stores? Well, I just say to myself, as I reach for my chocolate bar, “Merry Christmas to me!”
The Red Hat Society ladies enjoyed our annual Christmas slumber party at Sara’s Big R Bed & Breakfast in Florala. Dinner was an array of covered dish casseroles, dressing, fried and baked chicken, and all that goes with it. The desserts were delicious with all diets out the window! Several stayed up past 4 a.m., solving problems, eating and giggling! Sara’s breakfast filled a request for special fat-back bacon, fried crisp, biscuits, grits and eggs.
We exchanged gifts, played dirty Santa with small gifts, and Queen Mother was blessed with a lovely group gift and many other special gifts. These ladies are awesome, friendly, helpful and bonded together in friendship. We ended our time together by telling what we were most thankful for in 2009. Always leaving with thoughts of returning in December of 2010.
Carolyn Williams will be directing the Alzheimer support group meeting Dec. 17, always the third Thursday of each month at Laurel Hill’s First Baptist fellowship building, at 2 p.m. Alzheimer or any dementia problem is little known to the average person until a family member is diagnosed and your world is amazingly changed. The sudden onset of vascular dementia is devastating. Our community is no stranger to these disorders. You are welcome to attend these informative gatherings without any charge! For more information call Support Group leader Carolyn Williams at 850-598-1057.
The Laurel Hill Gallery is beautifully decorated inside and out. You will always find something you can’t live without as you shop with memories of yesteryear. Devona Willis has a lovely booth in the front of the old bank building side of the shop. Floral arrangements for home, business, gifts for all ages. Stop by and check it out.
Personally, I am ending this month celebrating my baby brother’s 71 birthday, Dec. 31, with my daughter and favorite son-in-law visiting with me. It seems like only yesterday he was swinging as high as he could on the Howell’s porch swing (across from the LH school).
“She will give birth to a son, and you are to NAME HIM JESUS, because He will save His people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21
