I'll Be Home for Christmas!




Yay! I'll be home in less than 24 hours : ). I am so excited. I miss my family lots and can't wait to be home.



This weekend I watched :

love it. 

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.  ~Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...
~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 197

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