Blogging along....with more after Christmas

For those I have encouraged to follow my blogs, I am sorry that I haven't had time of late to
blog. With Christmas so near I have been very busy, and I'm still not ready for the big day! I
have been formulating a new poem, inspired by the shape of a leaf stenciled to the sidewalk by frost, then blown away leaving only the evidence that it had been there, and my ideas about the
many kinds of snow and wintery mixes that we have here and about how cold it has been.

The snow and ice actually evaporates instead of melting when its this cold, did you notice? (Only
those who live here, would, of course.) And I learned the other day that X in Xmas, actually means Christ in Greek. So those who criticize when its used need not worry. We are not taking Christ out of Christmas by using it.

Also, today I learned that the word Christ was actually the Greek word for the Mesiah, and the
term didn't originate in Jerusalam. Interesting what you can learn by watching these
educational channels on TV.

I shopped till I nearly dropped with my grandchildren today and came home and took down the
rest of the Christmas boxes so they could have bows and ribbons for their wrapping. (The
paper, sizzors and tape was already available to them, without much effort on my part.)
So now they are all ready, but I am still behind because I was too exhausted to do any wrapping
myself after all that, LOL. We had a very good time.

We plan a very nice Christmas. We will Gather at my daughter Kira's on christmas for the gift
unwrapping with the girls, (my granddaughters), and a carry in breakfast buffet, then later we
will have a steak dinner at my home, and maybe sing Carols if I can get someone to play the
piano. Emily, my eldest Granddaughter, can play some Christmas tunes and so can my daughter
Carol, but they may have performance anxiety and be reluctant to do it. And I am still looking
for the Carol book with the words, (but who doesn't know the words to Jingle Bells and Deck the
Halls and all those anyway, right? I'll let you know how it turned out next time I blog. Merry
Xmas!