The Christmas Letter

Here I have this funny bit of time between opening packages and cooking dinner.  We aren’t having company so dinner is just for the two of us.  It must be time to blog a little.

My daughter and family gave us a neat calendar made from pictures of her family.  I see she got it at WalMart.  It’s excellent quality and I just love it.  I have room for two more calendars if my other children wanted to send one featuring their family.

Our college-age granddaughter had a birthday last night.  I will always remember getting that call on Christmas Eve with the news that she’d been born.  What a great Christmas gift.

Her older sister has gone to Slovakia with her roommate to spend Christmas there.  Her roommate is a native Slovakian and so the trip should be great.  This is our granddaughter’s first time out of the US.

I got an email from our granddaughter in Finland.  I think we are going to be a very cosmopolitan family.  She tells me they don’t use checks in Finland and though she’s glad to have it, she can’t cash it.  Tomorrow we will have to take care of that.

Her brother didn’t join the Marines in December as scheduled.  He now has a little more time as a civilian.  We were hoping he’d be stationed near our home, even if only for his basic training.

I have a new picture of another granddaughter dressed up in her new Kung Foo clothing.  She looks like she’s a good student.  I wouldn’t want to fight her.

Our Florida grandsons are doing well.  The little one (my daughter calls him Squirt) is a bundle of energy.  Hopefully the two of them can handle that.  The older grandson is as calm as the younger is busy.  They’re great boys.

So, this is beginning to sound like a Christmas letter – which it is.

Merry Christmas.

Marilynne