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I have been thinking about doing something like this for a while now...and here I am, writing my first blog.  

Yesterday was Christmas, so there was food and family everywhere.  Spent this Christmas with my husbands family.  I cooked all morning and people started arriving about 2 pm.  We ate and mingled with each other, just enjoyed good company.  A cousin went upstairs to play my fabulous Kawaii Grand Piano, that my father gave me earlier this year, and we all sang a few Christmas songs.  There was some gift opening, then back downstairs for some movies and more food.  What a blessing to have family!!

Christmas hasn't always been the easiest most enjoyable time of year for me.  When I was a kid my mom would start the decorations late November.  It seemed like everyday there were more Christmas cards coming in the mail...being hung around doorways, more presents under the tree, more ornaments on the tree, and more anxiety about when Christmas would finally come.  Christmas Eve would roll around and those were the longest most sleepless nights I can remember.  Waiting in my room for daylight to come so I could wake up my brother and parents to come open gifts.  How exciting!!
After my mother's death, which just so happened to be 2 weeks before my 8th Christmas, things just never really felt the same.  I would wish for her to be my present each year..which totally never happened, and once I got older Christmas was just like any other regular old day.  I haven't been able to spend Christmas with my dad and brother for about 6 years now, so this year I did something a little different.  I was recently given about 7 photo albums full of pictures that belonged to my mother, and of course they are full of family photos and memories, and I have also come across a few videos of my youth.  So guess what I did....you guessed it....watched the videos, and looked through pictures.  Just so happens one of the videos is of my very first Christmas...sooo it was like stepping back in time 22 almost 23 years..WOW!  Made me feel like I was a kid again and spending my Christmas with "my family."

Looking forward to that day when we will all celebrate with our Savior in Heaven, where we will never be apart again from the ones that we love!

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