Christmases Past - 2011

Our Christmas Tree in 2011

My mom's tree that year. She was still in her mobile home then. 

My mother-in-law's. She always packed on the ornaments. She loved Christmas and loved decorating for it. 

The big guy on duty, looking like he's been drinking too much egg nog. 

And now he's off duty. 

Mom, who hated getting her picture taken. And it shows. 

Nick always has been a ham for the camera. 

I listen to Christmas music pretty much non-stop the whole month of December. Just as I was posting this picture, the song Auld Lang Syne came on my computer. Crap. I knew it was a bad idea to post pictures of past Christmases this year. Yet, I don't think it was a coincidence that that song came on just now. God has His plan. And I'll be okay. 

Christmases past - 2010

 

As you know, it has been another rough year around here. Don't know how many Christmas cookies I'll bake or decorate. Also, didn't feel much up to writing a series of Christmas blog posts for the month of Decmeber. Plus, do any of you really have time to read them? So this year, to keep it simple - I present a series of pictures from Christmases past. 

Torturing the family by making them wrap presents. 

All the stockings hung with care.

Stockings of pets who have passed and - well - our foreign exchange student Ines, who thankfully went home two years before. 

TV rabbit ears growing out of my head. 

The tree