“The RoseBouquet”

Did you download and read my Christmas letter and booklet/card for you yet since last week? Go to this page to pick them up if you haven’t yet - Christmas Letter and booklet/card

You know, getting this Christmas mail out has really eaten into my schedule. I have given up a number of “business hours” to produce and then to address a huge batch to put in the mails, and then yesterday I finally assembled my email mailing list of 100 friends and relatives, and sent them the links so they could see it without waiting for the postal carrier. I know I’ll still remember the odd person or two that I missed, but I’ll take those in stride. Mostly I’m quite relieved.

I’ve also printed and bound a big batch of cookbooks, and been sending and giving them away left and right. Only a few are left. I had hoped to print some lovely Scripture Signs too and to frame them, but that may not happen. Today and tomorrow are fairly full, and I’m going to stay home on Christmas Eve to clean house and get ready for the holidays.

On Sunday I got to thinking about the different kinds of “Christmas Problems” various people have. Sometimes we think we have the very worst ones, but could we cope with the ones another person has? I think that would make a good topic for an article today.

By the way, Barbara from Australia pointed out something after last week’s issue;

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Thank you for sharing your everyday life with us this year. I much appreciate the letters from Canada. You are pushing 40 under and we are pushing 40 over for Christmas. 80 degrees difference - I wouldn’t like to make a sudden visit! Thank God I have air conditioning in my car!

With much love and warmth at Christmas and praying for your trials to be turned to praise. (Not that you don’t already) Barbara
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Can you imagine the sharp contrast from -40 to +40 Celsius! Wow! I wilt at +30!

As I said last week, I will be taking a break from publishing the RoseBouquet next week. You may be too busy to read it, and I’ll be busy with my catch up projects at home, if I don’t get a car full of surprise visitors from BC. In a certain phone call, it was hinted at and then she said, “Oops! You weren’t suppose to know that.”

You’ll want to watch for the RoseBouquet on Jan. 5th to see what adventures I had.

I hope you’ll write to tell me how your Christmas adventures go too.

I wish you and each one at your house, a wonderful Christmas - not necessarily in astonishing and stupendous gifts, but in the joy of knowing you are loved by God so much that He sent His BEST gift ever. Accept that gift and the glories of Heaven await you in the future too, besides the extra special things that will happen to you in this life-time.

Oh yes, some of you are wondering about my right thumb and wrist and my neck knots. The latter is cleared up, and I’m finding that wearing a brace around my wrist, or sometimes a tensor bandage, helps to make it feel more secure and cosy. It’s not in constant pain, but I do winch when I try to pick up something heavy or shift gears in the car. My wrist still wants me to say “ye,” and “thee” or “thou” to it.