This will be my last blog post until after Chrismas.  There is plenty here to read and catch up on, though.  My husband and I are going to get our last minute shopping in today, then we are headed to Baltimore County where my family lives and we are going to spend the night there.

My mother is headed for Israel next week, so my goal is to give her cash as a gift so she’ll have plenty to spend. And I’m giving my father cash. You can’t go wrong there.

 My husband is a baseball historian/lover. So I knew what he wanted and sure enough, he beat me to the punch by telling me (I was going to surprise him).  He wanted a baseball anthology which is on DVD. So that’s what I bought him.

He asked me what I wanted and I could not think of anything. THEN, while in church on Sunday, I found myself again struggling to close my wallet that one of my brothers gave me as a Christmas gift several years ago. And it occured to me that a great gift would be a new leather wallet.

So…it’s Christmas Eve and I am still shopping.  LOL! Can any of you identify?

I guess I don’t make too much of Christmas because the point is that it is the birthday of Jesus Christ.  In fact, in church yesterday I stood there and reminded the children that “santa” did not die for their sins—JESUS did.  And I reminded them that Christmas is the birthday of Jesus. JESUS is the star of Christmas. It was a great service.

  So here is wishing you and yours a healthy, safe and VERY MERRY Christmas!  Although we know that Jesus was not born on Christmas, it is the day that we acknowledge His birth….so….HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Father!