Christmas Week
I can't believe I'm so late blogging, but we had a great Christmas this year. We started out on the Monday before Christmas...Rafael who has been doing our carpentry work had his family flying in from Mexico. We had barbecue, and gave them gifts. They couldn't speak any English, so I really had to work hard to use the Spanish words that I remembered. It was very nice, and we enjoyed introducing the kids (6 and 12 years old) to the PS3 and Big Red.
Tuesday night, we all went to Karen's to have Christmas with Lisa's family. It was great to see Adam who I only get to see a few times a year.
Here is Lisa with the kids: Harlee Kate, Ro, Zach, Jax
Me and Ro with my new glasses from K & B!
Ro with his Santa loot!
Here is a picture of my dad and his brothers and sisters. Only Aunt Bren was missing.
Our tree at home - we finally got it up! Of course it was all alone in the room. All our furniture for this room is being recovered.
Tuesday night, we all went to Karen's to have Christmas with Lisa's family. It was great to see Adam who I only get to see a few times a year.
Here is Lisa with the kids: Harlee Kate, Ro, Zach, Jax
Wednsday night, we packed up and went to Karen's to spend the night. Christmas Eve is my absolute favorite day of the year, and I look forward to it all year long!!! It was different this year because we always stay with my parents. But since they haven't started building their house yet, Karen volunteered to host it. Christmas morning we had a huge breakfast (homemade cheese biscuits, Belgian waffles, bacon, sausage, fried eggs, coffee), opened a ton of presents, and packed up to go to Grenada.
Jax & Harlee Kate on her new toy
Ronin still wants to be swaddled!!!
Jax and his boxing set!
Ronin still wants to be swaddled!!!
Jax and his boxing set!
Me and Ro with my new glasses from K & B!
Ro with his Santa loot!
Jax's Santa loot
Gotta love that cheese!
The presents under the tree before we attacked them!
So we spent Thursday in Grenada with John's family. We had a great dinner with them, and came back home exhausted!!!! Then Friday night we went to John's dad's house in Batesville for his Christmas.
Today, I got an email from a wonderful friend who shared with me a little of about their family Christmas. I want to share her some of her remarks, but before I do, I want to say that we knew their family well back in the late 1960s. Her Dad was a sharecropper in Mississippi, while her Mother was a stay at home mother who took care of her husband, eight kids, her special needs sister, a garden, neighbors and a church family. They were indeed two of the most generous people that one could ever know.
Here is what my friend shared about Christmas as she was growing up and Christmas this year.
"As kids we always got little in the way of Santa, according to what others got, but to us it was LOTS and always sufficient. Mama used the one shoe box that we got annually for starting school, to put under the tree at Christmas for us. It was filled with fruit, orange slices, chocolate drops, coconut candy, nuts, one package of fire crackers and one box of sparklers. We loved the box always, and some of us never outgrew the need for the shoe box. Mama kept it up for those of us who longed for it, up until the time of her grave illness. This year, as we all gathered at the Harris Barn in Hernando, the nieces and nephews presented us (my siblings) with a shoe box and among the candy and fruit was a white box, and inside was a coffee mug with a picture of our home place made while Mama and Daddy were there, so all their things were on the front porch. On the back of the mug it read "There is no place like home."
The presents under the tree before we attacked them!
So we spent Thursday in Grenada with John's family. We had a great dinner with them, and came back home exhausted!!!! Then Friday night we went to John's dad's house in Batesville for his Christmas.Saturday we had my Dad's family Oglesby Christmas in Hernando at the Harris barn. My grandparents are no longer with us, but we "grandkids" stepped up this year and really gave our parents a nice surprise. The story was printed in a newsletter, so I am going to share what Mrs. Candy White wrote about it:
Today, I got an email from a wonderful friend who shared with me a little of about their family Christmas. I want to share her some of her remarks, but before I do, I want to say that we knew their family well back in the late 1960s. Her Dad was a sharecropper in Mississippi, while her Mother was a stay at home mother who took care of her husband, eight kids, her special needs sister, a garden, neighbors and a church family. They were indeed two of the most generous people that one could ever know.
Here is what my friend shared about Christmas as she was growing up and Christmas this year.
"As kids we always got little in the way of Santa, according to what others got, but to us it was LOTS and always sufficient. Mama used the one shoe box that we got annually for starting school, to put under the tree at Christmas for us. It was filled with fruit, orange slices, chocolate drops, coconut candy, nuts, one package of fire crackers and one box of sparklers. We loved the box always, and some of us never outgrew the need for the shoe box. Mama kept it up for those of us who longed for it, up until the time of her grave illness. This year, as we all gathered at the Harris Barn in Hernando, the nieces and nephews presented us (my siblings) with a shoe box and among the candy and fruit was a white box, and inside was a coffee mug with a picture of our home place made while Mama and Daddy were there, so all their things were on the front porch. On the back of the mug it read "There is no place like home."
Here is a picture of my dad and his brothers and sisters. Only Aunt Bren was missing.
Our tree at home - we finally got it up! Of course it was all alone in the room. All our furniture for this room is being recovered.
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