Friday, November 30, 2012

O Christmas Tree

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree how lovely are thy branches...

Here's a little snippet of an email from my missionary son this week:
Well I hope everybody is having a great holiday season, because I sure am. The only times I am a little homesick is seeing the Christmas trees in the store and wondering if the tree is up at home already, because I know how its always up around Thanksgiving if not before and thinking if Tanner (our dog) is sleeping underneath it.  
Well there is no Christmas tree this year at our house.   
Every year I usually work on putting up the tree the week before Thanksgiving but don't turn on the lights til Thanksgiving Day.  As a little country girl I absolutely loved the Christmas tree.  It's one of my very favorite memories and one of the things I really love about Christmas. 
This year being in a small city apartment we decided to have a fancy fireplace mantle instead.  So, I lent my large and small artificial Christmas trees to very good homes this year where they are decorated spectacularly by two very special daughters.  Also, I was invited to decorate our office Christmas tree and so I'm gonna be just fine....


Work Tree

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

1+1=3

I love this equation that doesn't make any sense unless it's applied to announcing a new baby!
So today is the official BIG Announcement!  My daughter is going to have a baby in April and I'm going to be a Grandma!  I can now officially post it on my blog.  Of course we can hardly wait to have a baby in our family again...it's been almost 20 years!  We are so happy and very excited for grandchildren to come into our home and to be called Grandma & Grandpa Nelson!!!