Hope this Christmas Day will bring you joy and happiness. We had our celebration last night. Well, we had our first celebration last night. I cooked a meal of ham, scalloped potatoes, green bean casserole and rolls. As the cook I can honestly say the meal was damn good. We opened our gifts. Santa was really good to me. A generous movie gift card, an Oregon Duck sweatshirt, a combination tie-vest-shirt, sugar free candy, three nice calendars (one for each room in my house), a nice pair of pajamas and a generous check. The annual gift from heaven was a hit with Mom. Today my nephew and his family are coming up from Eugene and bringing a turkey. My niece and her family are coming over from Tualatin and bringing desert. Mom & I are provided the leftover rolls, ham, and scalloped potatoes. No gift exchange, just eating and playing games. Well one game. We all love Catch Phrase, it is a hoot. Two Christmases! Can a man be any luckier.
Wanted to provide a link to one of Dona's memorable moments of 2010. It's hilarious.
http://mrgreenjeans.blogspot.com/
Christmas is for inspiration and sharing. Today we are sharing inspirational stories.
First up a young woman that started giving at a very young age. Adults provided her with a field and she ran with it:
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/07/30/sixth-graders-harvest-stocks-food-pantry-shelves/
Like the above story the following story was picked as on of the top ten good stories of 2010 by AOL news.
A secret agent outs herself:
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/08/06/secret-altruistic-agent-reveals-identity/
In Parade Magazine issue last Sunday they awarded several foundations doing good things grants of fifty grand. The following foundation stood out for me:
http://www.awarriorwish.org/
Enjoy the day!!
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Merry Christmas Bill, Oh and the Stoner says Merry Christmas also..;)
Your meal sounds delicious. All my favorites. Sounds like you also got some cool gifts. I would love to see the reaction on your mom when she is given the gift from heaven. I wonder what she is thinking each year? All I can think of is what a special guy you are to take the time to make sure she has that. Even the Stoner thinks you are special! I still don't know why some lucky woman hasn't plucked you up yet. Its a mystery.
All the stories are great, I have read a few this year on younger kids doing things such as this, and I hope it continues and is contagious....we need this in our country.
The Warrior story was also uplifting. We need so much more of our kind to be as determined as these Veterans.
So far today we have went up to my Son's home for Breakfast and gift exchange with Daughter in law and 2 grandsons. We got a Christmas Tree Night lite that is really cool, We'll have fun with it next year, a Cool Stainless Steel water bottle with a Knife/Light/Compass & bottle opener attached & a box of Assorted Truffles...just what we love...candy!
The Shankster has talked to 2 of his 8 brothers and sisters so far, he will have calls from Indy/Ohio/Florida & Tripoli, Libya coming in and he loves it to be able to talk to his far away family.
Later today I along with my dad will go to my brothers house to eat and visit with their kids. This year my son also is coming with his son and wife so it should be a great day.
We are having Barbeque/green beans/baked beans & macncheese along with cookies/easy cheesy lemon bars & zucchini bread(sweets made by yours truly)
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Hi Dona
Merry Christmas to both you and the Soner. I think he is a pretty special man too!
Mom usually cries but this year she was pretty sure it was me. I did find really nice gift wrapping paper with pictures of angels on it. And signed the card "your Johnny Angel." John was his name.
We need the news media to cover more good stories instead of focusing on the bad ones. And we do need to treat our veterans better.
Wow sounds like a busy day for you. Breakfast on Christmas Day is always fun! As is gift sharing.
I love all the gifts you got expecially the truffles.
I didn't know The Shankster came from such a large family, no wonder is a giving and thoughtful guy.
Your dinner sounds delicious!
Bill
It sounds like your Christmas Eve and your menu and gifts were all terrific. And it'll continue through today, nice work! {g}
Dona's hair story is great, thanks for posting it. It's a pretty good representation of why I never go to a hair salon, just do it myself.
Love the Secret Agent story. What fun to do something like that! The Warrior's Wish Foundation is also a wonderful thing.
We had a nice morning opening lots o' loot. I got a new camera, which I can't figure out so far except to take pix both with and w/o flash. That's probably all I really need, that and to make sure it'll talk to my computer. Also got a "body ball" that you can sit on (easy) and do exercises with (not so easy), a book on Antarctica and one on the emotional lives of animals, a dinosaur excavation kit that is turning out to be a lot of work, a few other small things, and of course, some chocolate. A little later, I'll go to Las Casitas and deliver my mom's gifts. We're having prime rib roast for dinner, with baked potatoes and salad and whatever veggies seem to go with. I'll make horseradish sauce for the roast, and just hope I can manage to get it to come out nice and med. rare.
I hope everyone is having as nice a Christmas as we are, and many good wishes for everyone's New Year!
Hi Pat
Christmas Day was pretty good too.
I loved Dona's hair story, I could just picture The Shankster with a hammer.
The secret agent story made me want to be her!
Sounds like you had a great Christmas too! A new camera is huge. My guess is in short order you will have the camera completely figured out. Even I figured out to connect my camera to the computer so no doubt you will too! What an interesting choice of books, I'd love them. And of course you can never go wrong with chocolate.
Your dinner sounds yummy, especially the horseradish sauce.
I'm looking forward to 2011!
Bill
Checking in late, but we also had a wonderful day, relaxing morning, mid-afternoon traditional meal with all the trimmings. Santa was very good to me. The most beautiful gift was one of Mom's hand made quilts. The most surprising gift was a magic digital camera, with more bells and whistles that I could ever imagine. Like Pat, I can take a picture (g). I inadvertently took a picture of the snow and somehow had it on movie, so when the picture plays back, it actually shows the snow falling. How cool is that? Oh, btw, Greenville had it's first white Christmas in a little over fifty years.
Like the others, I enjoyed the stories about the young girl, the "secret agent" and the Warriors. I also wish the media would spend more time broadcasting those kinds of stories, to show others what one person can do and how to engage others. Perhaps we'd find ourselves living in a kinder, gentler world.
Hi DR
No such thing as checking in late on the blog, anytime you are here it is appreciated.
It sounds like we all had relazing Christmases and those are tryuly the best.
There is nothing better than a hand made quilt. I love those.
And a camera that makes movies, how great!
How neat that you had a White Christmas.
Bill
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