Party and Pre Christmas

 Happy birthday to Son L, who is, for once, able to sleep late--although we have all looked in on him and wished him well. The hoopla can wait till later. 💗

All the local family was here for Son L's birthday party--his sister, wife, daughter, and yours truly. We  all enjoyed the get-together, but now your girl has to deal with Christmas itself. She'll feel even better if she could just find all her decorations, the ones she carefully wrapped and put in storage last year before she moved.

By the way, Fiorela has finally been able to sketch out the bones of her Christmas card, which gets harder each year because she's already used all the obvious greetings, scenes, topics, etc., but she can't make herself stop. CORRECTION: she doesn't want to stop!

Hey, hey! One of Son L's birthday gifts was wrapped in gold-toned paper and Fiorella managed to rescue the mangled remains of it--the paper that is--which she hopes she can use for her Christmas card dummy. (Er, "dummy" in the sense of a model for other cards or whatever.)

The tree is now dressed with shining ornaments and draped with ropes of silver and gold, as well as a star on top, just as it should be. God bless us all, both big  and small--and that's all I have to say today💗