Ye Olde Christmase Spirites

Kendra brought this to my attention yesterday while grocery shopping.
 
It just warms a Ma's heart to think of Coke--so big, yet so spiritually cognizant--remembering the importance of the season.

While I took this picture, Kendra provided a great foil by standing in front of the cart and pretending to paw through its contents, thereby blocking the view of the men behind the meat counter.

Call me paranoid, but I prefer not to draw the ire of butchers holding large cleavers.

Home again, home again. Now that a large pop manufacturing company had put me into the Christmas spirit, we set up the Christmas tree and the kids decorated. I did make them eat supper first, if you can believe it.
 (I know it's a bad picture, but I DID use flash....) Notice the two pronged top? Maybe that's why nobody else bought it. But just like Charlie's Brown's friends, the children have transformed the evergreen from a needy, green spray-painted conifer to a lovely Christmas creation.

And even though we'd tested all the lights earlier that morning, wouldn't you know it, the first strand refused to work. But Kendra--official light putter-oner--took Ethan's sage advice and just "shook them," and they popped on.

*makes mental note NOT to encourage Ethan in pursuing neurosurgery*

Even the defibrillator gets a pretty green bow....
 (....Oh Ma, we love your macabre humor!)

Here's something I received from a nice person at church, who wishes to remain nicely anonymous. I must be slipping in my photography, for the words are bleached out with the flash, but they say....
  "I'd stop eating chocolate, but I'm no quitter!"

A bear after my own heart :-D

We have been receiving cards and Christmas newsletters from far and anon, which reminds me, I should really start on ours, soon....

Just as a warning, our Christmas letter will be more likely a New Year's missive.

As in, any time within the months of January or February.

See, we'll be getting a total family picture at the wedding this weekend (if I remember :-) and then there will be processing and all the rest. That, along with book deals, contract negotiations and all....well, you can see how impossible it will be to get the letter out in a timely fashion.

I suggest we all quaff a Coke, or something, while we're waiting.

Humbly yours,

Ma
 

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