It is 8:00 am Christmas Eve.

I have everything purchased, and will possibly take a walk or something, to start getting some fresh air to my head. I will paint some little snowman buckets made from cans, and I even decided to make myself one. I am spending this break doing what I can to relax and enjoy the season. Merry Christmas, give your horse a carrot from me!

Wonderful, you get to practice with the camera! Have a wonderful Christmas.

Thanks pal I have missed you too xxxxx

Margaret, I am so glad to see you. Have a Merry Christmas. We will have a service at 6:00 pm tonight. I will have early dinner with my sister and niece, and great niece, then take Christmas dinner to my son's house-it is my daughter in law's birthday.I hope your family is doing well, I have missed seeing you. Christmas blessings to you.

It sounds like a wonderful family day!!!!

I happen to be off of both jobs. I will work at one on Wednesday. The school district job is off until after the first of the year.

I have tons to do. It will get done, though. I will provide dinner at my son's house tomorrow night.

Merry Christmas to you as well. I can imagine a nice dinner out for Christmas eve.

We can cry on each other's shoulders. I am glad it is the job it is and not the other I go to on Wednesday. Part of it will be updating my training schedule. All computerized. It is okay, as hubby will be working too.

I have been to the grocery store once, and Wal Mart twice. Hubby just went back to work. He did not get any shopping done he just realized. He will work until 6:00, guess I get a lump of coal. I was scheduled to work this evening, but all of my clients are gone to their family homes. Do you get Wednesday off?

The boss is opening the store 2 hours later, so the girls who normally go in at 8 are going in at 10. I normally go in at 10, so said I wanted to go in late also and come at noon since I worked today on my day off. She said, "Late! When!" and when I said noon, she said didn't I have prep work I needed to get done and I didn't want to get behind. Sometimes it feels a little unfair around there...poor pitiful me. LOL

Depression is rough, and even more so around the holidays. I hope things can work out and you can have some joy again. So you bought the girl a mouse? My niece gave up on rats, our supplier did not have healthy ones. She was given a pregnant guinea pig, and has been having fun since the babies arrived. My first husband was always depressed at the holidays, in a passive way. My former brother-in-law had drunken binges and broke things and hurt people. I suspect that underlying health issues contribute a lot to seasonal depressions.

What was the special gift? Can you share I trust you had a Merry and blessed Christmas.

That is a very touching story, and I am so glad for you.

I did have a merry Christmas. Talking about the gift my dad got me makes tears comes to my eyes because he humbles me with the amount of love he shows me. My dad has had to learn to show emotion because that isn't how he grew up. But over the years every time he gets excited about something, we all do because he has worked so hard to express himself. So I have been driving a 1998 Nissan Altima for a quite a while. I bought it about 3 years ago but have wanted to go to a small SUV or a small pickup because getting into a car is really hard on my back. My dad besides being a pastor, buys and sells things for his friends and they pay him a little fee when he does this. Doing this he has been able to support he and my mom in periods where she was too sick to have a job. He has also surprised me by filling my car up with gas when he knew I was having a particularly rough time. I came over that day and he came in later and pulled me outside. Right out front was a 1999 Ford Ranger pickup. He had bought it wrecked and fixed it up. That is also how I got my Nissan at a good price. Anyway, he had spent the last 2 months worth of nights at his mechanic friend's place helping him and another guy fix the pickup for me, including new interior, and a new paint job. It also has less miles on it than my Nissan. I got into it and absolute no strain was put on back! I was almost in tears. He had sacrifcied his free time to work on this so I would have it for Christmas. He plans to sell my car, but that will mean him taking a 500 dollar loss for him because of the lesser value of my car. So he put in 500 dollars of his own money for me to have something that is better for my health, and easier for me to haul things. The smile on his face was so beautiful. I just hope I expressed my gratitude enough. My mom told me he has wanted to tell me for the longest time, but he finally finished it and couldn't wait any longer. Anyway, that was the gift that was so special. I'll have to get a picture of it. It's a very beautiful shade of scarlet/purple. That sounds weird, but I can't think of the exact shade it is called. : )

Wow, you are organized. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas day.

It was a suitable day for being outside, too. The sun was shining. I smile just thinking about it. We had a nice day on Christmas, too. Gonna have snow again this week.

Merry Christmas to you, in India. I love the season.

The biggest thing to me is to get to be with family in lots of places.

It is nice to be able to breeze in here and post a little. A good break. Hope you had a lovely Christmas.

Oh, I sure hope you get it taken care of. Mine is limping along. It spends time on the charger on a regular basis. Probably the starter, hubby says. Merry Christmas. I got to be a Navy wife for a couple of years.