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| This precious little lighted Christmas Tree, a gift from niece Joy was our centerpiece for the Christmas Afternoon card game, "Hands & Feet" with granddaughter Jackie. |
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| Jackie won as usual! |
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| This was a first for a Christmas Dinner but it was good! |
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| I always take a picture of Karen and I with our 4 & 5 year Sunday School Class on the night of their Christmas Program . So this is this years. We've been teaching here for at least 35 years! |
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| Son Paul & Tracee invited us over for Brunch on Christmas Eve which was delightful! |
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| Sister Judy who is going thru Chemo right now was invited and able to come too, although I caught her with a very serious look on her face! |
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| This is the 90th Birthday Card I made for a good friend Esther Hess. One of our Card Playing Buddies! |
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| This was a beautiful setting among many at the Funeral Home where we were the day after Christmas. |
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| Our dear college/church friends of 60 years both in poor health passed within 20 hours of each other. It was a bittersweet experience: 2 hearses -2 caskets. I wrote a tribute to them which to read Maurice and I had to go up about 5 stairs (without railings) to the pulpit in The historical Tower Grove Baptist Church . I almost made reading it without breaking down! |
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| Usually Maurice and I take the grandkids and son Paul our for separate Christmas shopping days & their choice of eateries. But this year there was none of that so we took ourselves out! We choice The Smoke House BBQ! Yeah! |
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| We had 2 meals out of this! |
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| And our favorite place to spend an afternoon! |
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| Books, Magazines and Coffee! Yeah!! Happy Old 2016 and Happy New 2017! |
