2007 December 17 | Suzanne Earley

The little tag says “I’m a lucky girl, with a lot to be very thankful for.”

It is not the best picture of my husband, but I do not have very many pictures of him. If I take a better one of him sometime soon, I’ll replace it.

The lyrics along the side are from the song “Thankful,” which is on the new Josh Groban Christmas CD.

I’ve been helping my mom getting ready for her house guests. When I was at her house on Saturday she had out some Christmas ornaments and I snagged this one to bring home to my tree:

Cute, right? Cross-stitched by me when I was….7 years old. Mom would have been the one to add the lace, backing, and hanger.

Except look:

It has never been stitched by hand to close it up.

The sad thing is that I hung it on the tree in order to take the pictures, and I suspect that it will stay there until it gets taken off the tree, packed away…and remain unfinished until I pull it out of the box next year. Or maybe I’ll surprise everyone and just go do it, since it’ll take, what, all of about 5 minutes???

xxoo-

suzanne

If you click the pictures, you’ll be taken to Flickr where you can see the credits for the pages. I’ve just realized that my text for Day 15 is running a little crooked (I had it crooked, and then straightened it back out, but obviously didn’t get it completely straight….)

I’m still feeling pretty lousy this morning, but: I do have the first dose of antibiotics in me, as well as some Nasonex, so hopefully it won’t take long before the pressure in my head is relieved.

And I’m now ready to be a little more grateful and a little less irritated….

TTFN-

Suzanne

Day 14 Text:

One of the most important parts of Christmas to me is the music. It would almost be easier for me to pick the songs I don’t like, rather than trying to name one or even 10 of my favorites. I love them all for different reasons. Many times, it’s the one I’m listening to right now that is my favorite. It’s been several years since I’ve sung at church, but when I did, I usually picked Gesu Bambino or O Holy Night.

This year I’m playing for the Methodist Church choir, which also means playing for 2 services in December. I’m finding that this is primarily going to be a Jim Brickman year — as the songs that seem to want to be played are from the new book of his Christmas music that I purchased earlier this year.

My new favorite Christmas CD this year is Josh Groban’s “Noel.” I could listen to him sing all day long.

Day 15 Text:

This year we will both HAVE visitors and BE visitors. When I wrote about my perfect Christmas, I
had no idea that my brother and his family might come to Iowa for a visit! Needless to say,
we are all quite excited! They will be sleeping at my Mom’s house, but they will spend plenty of time
over at our house, too. We have a lot to pack into their 3 days of visit!

Next week we’ll be headed to my sister’s for a week. We’ll get there on Christmas Eve — I’m looking
forward to enjoying Christmas with my 2 year old nephew. He is just starting to “get” the magic
of Christmas, and the addition of having his big cousins to play with ought to be quite fun.

We have lots of things planned for our visit to New York City — the boys are quite excited! At the
top of the list are visits to the Statue of Liberty, Ground Zero, the Empire State Building, Times Square,
and Rockefeller Center to see the tree.

Our biggest wish in the 2 weeks to come is for good weather so that all of our traveling will be safe
and without delay.