Merry Christmas

I wish you a merry Christmas, I wish you a Merry Christmas I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

What  would it take to make you Merry and Happy this Christmas?

It seems the the broadcast is as follows:  We, the news reporters, interrupt your life with the following Bulletin:

Here comes slew foot here comes slew foot right down slew foot lane, He’s got a bag and it’s filled with sorrow to mess with your mind again…..

Bills are a past due, Gifts are worrying you,  What a pitiful site…..  Collectors saying  Yes you are Paying,    Old Slew foot comes tonight.

Don’t let the cares of this world mess with your Christmas.  This is the Celebration for the Birth of Christ.  Renew your mind with happy memories.  Cherish your family and loved ones.

My heart is filled with wonderful memories of my Mom and Dad….lots of food and company, always gifts for those not as fortunate as we were.  My mother would go to the orphanage and take clothes, powder and cosmetics  for 3 girls there.  Then, she would bring one of the girls  home for the Holidays.

Trips to Grandma Asher’s home, where the fireplace crackled with the wood fire, and chestnuts roasting in a iron pot…..my Aunt Martha backed up to the heat in her worn blue jeans that I so envied.

On to Aunt Josies house for Chicken and dumplings……Josie killed the hen, dressed it and cooked it.  Next to my Uncle Kells (who was really my biological dad, and hear the gross stories of how he slaughtered the hog)……….fresh pork for breakfast and sides of ham to go in the smoke house.

We had a Hobo,  who we all called Uncle Steve.  He came every Christmas and slept on a cot in the Smoke House.  Christmas day he joined us at the Dinner Table.  I met a man in Astoria who reminds me of Uncle Steve.  Uncle Steve rode the trains and ironically also left this planet when one ran over him.

Twas the night before Christmas and a Caroling we did go………..Actually, there was Caroling the week before Christmas.  It was sweet to hear the sernade of the Carolers outside.

My favorite guest….Uncle TJ would arrive with laughter, jokes and an appetite for hot peppers………………..

I am not sure I created enough wonderful family memories for my sons.  I pray they will create special memories this year.  By the Grace of God I intend to share love joy and peace this Season…..these items are free.

I am thankful for my sons, Ray Mark and Kris, daughter in laws, Lynne, Sophia, Christiana and Grand children  Sean, Soleil and Eliana.

I am thankful for my health, for the friends and family I have on earth and those gone on who enriched my life.

I am Thankful that I believe that Jesus came to create his Kingdom here on earth, that I have accepted Him as my Christ and Saviour and Celebrate His Birth and Eternal Life during this Season.

Peace and Joy unto you…..Enjoy this season and take it with you for the coming year.  Bake a pan of cookies and give them away!

This has been a year of extreme change for me.  Change is good.

Now, I am like Secretariat and plan to cross that finish line!

Peace and Joy,

Molinda