Busy Day Putting Things Away Getting Ready For Another Work Week

Today was a rainy day here in Cleveland. The temp. was in the mid fifties most of the day. What yucky weather to come back to. What was interesting too was that we all felt like we were in the Twilight Zone. We were returning from mid 70's weather with sunny, blue sky days to Christmas Lights put up everywhere! It must have been nice here Saturday as there are lots of lights up in our neighborhood.
There's no way it's going to be December later this week! Time is going by so fast. Christmas will be here before we know it.
In our house December brings about the beginning of celebrations in our house. Dec. 13th is my birthday, then Christmas, then the 30th is Sarah's bday. Jan 3rd is Tim's Bday and Feb 16th is Ben's bday.

I spent the day putting things away from the trip and also from the craft show. I had lots to do to clean up my stamping area.
I also had an Education Plan to finish which always takes longer than I want.
I did get to watch a bit of television. Love those Christmas movies on Lifetime. They take me away from reality for a while. I got some new books and cd's from the library. I want to plan on time to get them listened to and read so I don't have to renew them multiple times.
What is a birthday tradition in your family? What was it growing up?
Our birthday tradition when we were growing up was to have mom make our favorite birthday dinner. I always had spaghetti and meatballs. Mom made homemade sauce....yum!
Our birthday tradition now is to go out to eat at the restaurant of your choice. My choice is usually an Italian place....love to get lasagna since I don't often make it.
I have another education plan to finish by Thursday. It's a busy time of year.
Here's another Christmas Video for you by Matthew West.


Last Christmas, Matthew West released a touching video, One Last Christmas inspired by the true story of the Locke Family and their quest to make one final Christmas wish for their son come true. This year, Matthew delivers yet again another heart-warming and beautiful song, The Heart of Christmas as the title song from the GMC movie The Heart of Christmas based on this incredible story of the Locke family and the community that gave this little boy one last Christmas. This is truly a Christmas must-see which begins Dec. 4th!!

Thanks for stopping by. Start to think about the real reason for the season. Hopefully you'll find that if you concentrate on that you won't NEED to buy all sorts of things and wrap them. Buy some for your family and then use the rest on others. That's what we started doing last year. We each got a few presents then gave the money we'd spend on ourselves to different charities that we support such as The City Mission, Laura's Home, Truth For Life by Alistair Begg, World Vision and local families in our church.
May you begin to pray about what you can do for others this year for Christmas.
Bless you for thinking of others. Your kindness will be rewarded.
Blessings,