It's good to hear from you, Judith. I hope the appointment you have is not another challenging one. If you were here we would try making the fudge so thin you could dissolve it on your tongue, and the cookies might be good for you dunked in milk! They are Snickerdoodles so they would be good that way! Hugs and prayers coming your way.

Linda, I loved the sound of your candle light service. Yes, singing Christmas hymns is so good. The Pastor's wife plays piano, their son plays acoustic guitar, and I play flute. The three of us agree we should schedule Christmas hymns throughout December. I so enjoy practising the hymns at home too and my neighbours seem to love it as well. Glad your daughter is doing so well!

Barb I can only imagine how busy with family ypu might be. Enjoy!

Colin and I are going to prepare food today. It's Christmas Eve here. We want cold meat and salad tomorrow. We lteady have the ham and today we will bake two chickens. I will make big batches of potato salad and green salad. I'll bake cookies. Tomorrow is The big day.

Blessings to you all. Here's one of my cards in a friend's tree for you to enjoy.

Barb - I am sorry that the cold virus is traveling through the family. Babies usually have some immunity to these virus from their mother's milk so I pray that if she does have more symptoms than just the stuffies, that it does not stay long. Being a baby and not understanding why you can not breathe is hard on them. I am sorry that you lost your angel earring. I have lost several and gave up after looking everywhere I could think about. We have carpet in the bedrooms that is thick and it is so easy to loose an earing or a back of an earring and never find it again in the dept of the carpet fibers.

Susan - Merry Christmas to you as you celebrate early. Cold meat and salad sounds delicious to celebrate with. We bought a turkey that was on sale that is 25# for Christmas. I am hoping to have lots of meat left over to freeze for my daughter to use after we leave. Turkey is not my favorite but once ready to get into the oven, it gives more time to work on the rest of the meal. I will be making some things tomorrow like the cherry pie. When we had it for family for Christmas, I did not get a piece because it was so popular. Next time I will make two when the family comes.

Judith I prayed for your doctor appointment this afternoon. Susan's suggestion of thinning the fudge texture so you can drink it was interesting. Maybe it would work but it might taste like chocolate milk in the end.

It was a dreary day with hardly any sky showing through the clouds. Even though is may be a little warm during the day, when the sun goes down, it really starts to feel cold. It is 40F (4.44C) now and will get to a low of 28F (-2.2C) later tonight. We were out a little bit today but mostly I worked on school stuff attached to the audit we are doing. I have found a few missing items that were only downloaded into the old program but not into the most recent program so that is good I can complete those files. It gives me a sense of accomplishment to be able to find things and correct them - like a detective looking for clues. My daughter is feeling more pain today - which I have felt with my surgeries that this is normal. The first few days, the anesthesia is wearing off as well as the pain medication they inject into the wound during surgery. Now she can think better and is more mobile and her body is saying "What happened? I have been traumatized!" She took a shower today and that is about all she wanted to accomplish. It really tired her out. She also took a nice nap which she really needed.

Merry Christmas all, and thank you for your friendship and prayers throughout this year. It means more than you know to me.

Barb, praying for your family. What a time for a cold virus.

Linda, I was hoping Judith could slice the fudge wafer thin so it would dissolve without being chewed! Otherwise yes, it would become chocolate milk! Lol!

Barb - I hope those who do not have the cold are wearing masks and washing their hands frequently when they are in contact with the sick ones. That helps a lot to keep the virus away. Praying for the whole family to as healthy holiday as possible and the others are protected - including you and Harry.

Susan - Praying that you had a wonderful Christmas celebration with family. Ours is coming tomorrow! Slicing the fudge for Judith makes more sense now that you explained it.

Judith - Praying that you also have a blessed Christmas with family.

I have the cherry pie baked and the turkey has been thawing for 5 days so I hope tomorrow it can go directly into the baking bag and into the oven without having to thaw it more in the morning. We watched the movie "The Star" which is a tradition. I really like that movie.

All the presents and stockings are opened, trash is in the garage, turkey is in the oven and three of the four of us are taking a nap. It is a quiet time right now with a little rain outside. I doubt that it will amount to much . My mother used to quote an old Indian saying - "little rain - big rain: big rain - little rain". (translation to those who do not understand my mother's quote - if it rains small rain drops (little rain), it will rain for a long time (big rain). If it is heavy rain (big rain) - it will not rain much (little rain). I have seen that quote prove false many times so I do not really trust it. She also said the same saying about snow.

We have decided to stay here in Westminster for another week to help our daughter. She had not been able to drive yet and our granddaughter needs a ride to her job on the weekend. She is having more pain as she had gotten more active but does not like to take pain pills. She says it makes her head "foggy" and very sleepy. If she should start to feel better and can be more independent, we could leave earlier if we can to go back to Grand Junction.

Judith - thanks for the Christmas greetings and quoting the real reason for the season. I am sad that commercialism has taken over many people's hearts during this time that we joyfully worship the baby in the manger who gave us the greatest gift of all.

Merry Christmas to all So glad God sent His son for us to be saved & have eternal life. ✝️
I gave son, Harry 3, some homemade treats. I need to make some oatmeal with craisins & white chocolate cookies, as they took them all.
I am out of the white chocolate so I’ll get that at Walmart.
Our grandsons got new beds as they will have a new brother in April. Tim our son in law made its out has light & he will make it easy to get up & down. Nice he is handy. He talked about making floating shelves too.
Hope all had a nice day. Cloudy & foggy here.
We didn’t see our grand daughters all sleeping so in & out of house. I made dishcloths for Yan Yan, sister, & Amy.
Prayers for all especially Judith.