Are we ready for Christmas?

Yes, and no. We expect to go to a Christmas Tree Farm, tomorrow, December 22nd to cut a live tree. Sarah and Nathan's tribe will be with us. (Except for Luke...why's that?)

We have been loving the addition of Hannah to the circle here, as she arrived home for mid-semester break. She and Ellen have gotten most of the "house" decorations put up, and also decorated the outside tree in the front yard, as per usual. So many lights on that tree! Well, it's over 8 feet tall now. It was our inside/live tree 6 years ago. Then we planted it out front. Very healthy and handsome tree.

Grandmama/Phyllis left on Saturday and returned to Richmond. Wirt came up to retrieve her. Granny Lou is coming up for the afternoon on Christmas, and will stay overnight.

Other than that....we might travel to Pennsylvania for a day over the Christmas to New Year's week. We shall see.

The target we set for a New Hampshire visit did not materialize. So, we won't be able to get to see the eight (8) wonderful Grandchildren there. If only.....yes, "if only" we had a method, a connection, (other than SKYPE) to stay more current with all of them.

We saw Doug (the Chief) Coath over the Thanksgiving break! He was in Virginia to visit a relative and we had time (with Ellen and Hannah) to work on his I-Tunes application on his laptop. That was fun!