Merry Christmas!!

I hope everybody has had the chance to reflect on the blessings in their lives as all the holiday celebrations have been in full swing.  I spent a really fun-filled Christmas Eve and Morning with my favorite people, my son and younger daughter, 2 of my 3 grandchildren, and the family of my daughter-in-law.  We all gather at my son's home and this year we had Zane and Zoe races throughout the living room, dining room and kitchen (the layout of the house gives them a clear circle to run), cousin chasing cousin, rowdy, noisy kids at Christmas.  Zane is too young to understand much except that there are a lot of his favorite people in his house, especially cousin Zoe who is crazy wild and seven.  They're my younger grandchildren and they're a blast.  These are among my blessings.

Then a long, much needed phone conversation with my older daughter who has been incommunicado since I saw her in August.  I found out today that the reason I haven't been able to get in touch with her is that she's in cosmetology school, about half-way through!!  I'm really happy for her and she's so excited to be honoring her girlie-self, loving what she's learning, has made a couple of friends along the way, and really is finding her niche.  So more blessings on that front with her, my older grandson playing the French horn, trumpet and tuba with some ease between the three, and life looking up all around. 

Zoe got tons of her favorite things for Christmas-art supplies!!  She's very excited to do some painting with me later in the week so we'll have an overnight which we haven't done in a while.  I've told her about the sketchbook challenge and she's very interested so I'll probably post some of her work on the theme for each month along with mine.  It's only days away now-ready, set, go!!  Before you know it, we'll be arting all over the place!!  

So now I'm back on my mountain top, it's snowing outside and I'm watching a Buffy marathon (don't have cats named Willow, Darla, Spike, Xander, and Jonathan for no reason, y'know). Big blessings in the year just past, big blessings in the year to come, life is so very good!  Happy holidays!!