Christmas is a Comin'

Snow on the bushes

Can't see it, but it's snowing!

 I love the Christmas season. Today it really feels like Christmas.  It started showing around 10 a.m. and while it didn't stick to anything but leaves, the big flakes came falling down for awhile and was beautiful.It's every child's dream - to have snow for Christmas.  Doesn't happen very often in Elba, AL.

We had snow for Christmas many years when we lived in TX, GA, MN, NC, SC, and Germany.  We really don't miss the cold weather.

Today is James' birthday and that's when we usually put up our real tree.  This year I put the pre-lit  tree up the first day of December.  Since we are not having company this Christmas, I only put 2 ornaments on the tree this year, the electric train ornament from NYC and a special ornament of James'.  Then I used some red bows, lights, red and gold balls.   James always wanted lots of presents under the tree and could hardly wait for me to wrap them.  He loved buying gift wrap and bows.  Our paper always had Santa Claus on it.

We put Santa Claus in the front yard and a big wreath on the house above Santa.  And we hung our Moravian Star, as we have done since we lived in Winston-Salem near Old Salem, a Moravian village.

The creche is in place on a hall table and we turn the light on in the stable and leave it burning until January.
One of the camels has a hole in his back where it cracked during one of our moves.  Joseph's head keeps falling off despite super glue.  The cow only has one horn left.  We've had it since 1970-  40 years ago!  James' teachers made the figures for children in his special class when he was in school in Paris, TX.