Ski Lift Jigsaw Puzzle

Merry Christmas and God bless you as well, my dear friend.

Merry Christmas to you, aussie! And I hope more blessings than you can count as my wish for you!

God bless, mamag15 and have a wonderful Christmas with many, many blessings.

Hugs to all. Ho ho ho

Aussie --- "two more sleeps and we are there!!! " ----
reminds me of my first graders long ago. It still tickles me and you brought that happy memory to mind. Thanks!

Merry Christmas to everyone, have a wonderful holiday. Bless each and everyone.

Merry Christmas everyone and may God bless each with joy

Merry Christmas to all the fantastic puzzlers and the C4J staff!! aussie, your "two more sleeps" reminds me of the Muppet Christmas Carol when Kermit sings 'there's only two more sleeps till Christmas.'

Hugs and blessings to all.

The same to you and may your New Year be all you need it to be. Warm wishes and sincere prayers.

Thank you rpayne - have a blessed Christmas.

Your welcome always. It was so blessed...unbelievable.

Not that anyone really cares, lol, but Kermit's song in "A Muppet Christmas Carol" said there's only ONE more sleep till Christmas, not two as I stated earlier. 🙃

God will be with you Pixi - just rest in His everlasting arms. Hugs.

Thanks, Aussie. I'm trying to. Hugs to you and hopes for a wonderful Christmas.

I am sure it will be a tough day. Will you be with any friends or family? Praying for you.

Thanks becky. No I'll be alone. My brother and his wife called and we had a long phone visit and so did two friends. Tomorrow if the roads aren't too bad I'll go to church and lead the singing. Then I'll come home and heat up leftovers from Thanksgiving. Even when my husband was alive we just came home after Mass and didn't do anything special after my son died seven years ago. He wasn't big on presents because his parents were too poor to buy any for their kids. I always provided all the decorating, presents, food etc. as my son grew up. Other than decorate and send cards that's about it these days. Both my friends and son cancelled their scheduled visits because of the COVID surge. So I don't feel too left out.
Hope you are still able to see loved ones and all of you are well.

The "first" of everything - Thanksgving, Christmas, birthday - is difficult when you've lost a loved one. It does get easier, and the memories will still be with you. God grant you peace, pixi.

Thanks aknan. At the momeny it's the memories that hurt the most. I was just getting to being able to remember things about my son and now I'm back to square one. I am fortunate to be in a pretty safe neighborhood and own my house. It's just a matter of faith and patience I guess. Thank you for your encouragement. Have a beautiful Christmas.

Sorry you will be alone. That covid is messing a lot of things up. I am up late as usual and the clock just turned midnight. It just turned Christmas. We don't have plans. On Sunday Sam's son and family are coming to visit for a few days. We will fix Christmas dinner then. They have been married just a few years. His wife already had a boy about 13 and then they had a boy. He will be three next month. We have only seen them a couple times. They live in Arkansas and he works a lot so they don't travel much. So we will celebrate a little.

Hugs beckydent.

I hope you had a wonderful celebration, Becky.
Arkansas is a pretty state. We looked into retiring there and visited twice. Where are they in Arkansas?

Thank you, Elijah. That gave m a smile as I could only play guitar and now I can't even do that because I get trigger finder when I try to play it. I did it for 7 yers in church and the parishioners liked it but the priests didn't. There's a whole push (probably the organist's guild is behind it) to only have the organ play at Mass. They try to make people believe somehow that instrument is the only one approved by some Pope over a hundred years ago so that's all we should be allowed to have. What rubbish!

Why on earth does the type of music played in church cause such an uproar? It's all to glorify Him, so why can't we accept that and go on?

Power. Exclusivity.
I'm with you. If a person has a gift they are willing to share which glorifies God and also gives pleasure to those sharing it, why not let 'er rip?