Just thinking ...
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After Thanksgiving dessert That was our family rule: You couldn't start anything to do with Christmas until after dessert on Thanksgiving. I remember rushing up the stairs to the attic as the door closed behind the last dinner guests, stumbling back down with my arms full of boxes, and setting up the creche (nativity scene). Meanwhile Daddy would be putting Christmas records on the turntable. And Mother would be washing dishes.
But I'm thoroughly breaking that rule this year. It's partly the fault of Christmas choir, because my ears, mind, and heart are filled with "ding dong ding dong, that is their song!" and "oh, come! let us adore Him!" and "the hallowed manger ground."
It's partly that I have a booksigning Saturday, November 28 (Mardel in Littleton, 10-1), so I'm working on Christmas bookmarks to hand out. Not to mention what to talk about on KPOF when I'm interviewed November 24 (AM 910, 7-8 a.m., MST). Both involve the new Cup of Comfort Book of Christmas Prayer from Adams Media.
I've taken the photo for my Christmas letter (Sallie in a snowflake dress, and Dolphin in a spangled collar and an elf hat, complete with pointed ears). I'm working on what to write for it. I'm getting ready to put my Christmas display in the yard, and planning where to put the tree this year.
It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, everything I do:
Planning when we can celebrate, filling in every date,
My dressed-up cat who's hissing, I hate you!
It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, soon the rush will start!
Celebrating the new-born King—every word of the songs I sing—
Christ lives in my heart!
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