Happy Holidays
If you don’t celebrate Christmas, please accept my warmest wishes anyway on the year and thanks for any interactions we may have had. My family does celebrate and for me it is always a time to connect with friends and family and to share my thanks and appreciation for those in my life. I love you all!
Have spent the last week with my family in Prince Edward Island and yesterday we got snow – which is still continuing. Although being in Venezuela and seeing all of the Christmas trees for sale (shipped from Canada) was an odd experience and really made me think through what has become the tradition around the world, I still love having snow on the ground myself. Isn’t it odd to think about though? Even down in the southern parts of the world people sing ‘Let it Snow’, people decorate trees that are shipped in from other areas, it is rather odd right?
When we were children my aunt knitted us all Christmas stockings nice and extra large as a joke on my parents. These are the stockings we use each year for Santa to fill. Each year we attempt to stretch them to their fullest (especially me, as I am the eldest and the stockings have grown each year!). Here is one of my favorite photos of my two younger sisters and I back in 2005.
Happy holidays everyone 
Thank you again and I hope you visit again in the new year.
Hehe, that’s such a fun photo. I hope you’re having a wonderful time with your family! You’re right, though – Christmas really is shaped by Northern Hemisphere traditions to an almost strange degree. It’s the same in Brazil. I can understand the historical reasons, but it makes for incongruousexperiences!
Happy Holidays to you and yours
Thanks Ana. Isn’t it so odd to really think about it? This may have to be written out into something more coherent next year
Happy holidays!
I am missing my white Christmas this year. Merry Christmas, Amy!
Aw sorry to hear that Jayme! Happy holidays!
Merry Christmas! I love the photo!
Thanks Kathy – happy holidays to you as well! Hope you enjoyed.
Merry Christmas Amy! We got snow as well:-)
Glad to hear it BB, I hope you had a great holiday!
Cute pic Amy
Merry Christmas!!
Thanks Emily Jane, same to you!
That’s such a fun pic and tradition, Amy! Have a wonderful Christmas
Sadly no white Christmas over here but otherwise it’s been great.
Glad you enjoyed Bina
Happy Christmas to you as well, glad it went well.
Great pic! I hope you had a great time with your family.
Thanks Trisha, hope you had a great time as well.
Happy holidays to you and yours!
Same to you Niranjana!
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas in the snow!
Thanks Jill, I hope yours was also great.
Happy Christmas Amy! What a great pic of you and your sisters
That photo of the house in the snow has made me wish it was snowing here too – the UK is so mild that people are walking around in T-shirts!
Happy Christmas to you as well The Book Whisperer. I hope you had a great one. Sorry to hear it was so warm there!
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!
Same to you Anna!
Beautiful pic of you and your sisters. I prefer a hot Christmas myself and have been dreaming of one for the last five years. Maybe next year!
Happy new year, Amy. May it bring all the blessings you want and more.
Thank you Adura, I’m glad you enjoyed. I usually prefer the hot weather as well
I hope that some time soon you get your hot one! And all the best to you as well in the new year!
VERY cute photo ! I wanna call it “The Joy of Socks” !!
Thanks maphead
That is a good title!