Well here it is Christmas night – Christmas day always seems to go so quickly – and now I start to think about when to take the tree down, and all the trouble of getting the boxes out and re-packed, outside lights to come down ect.  We will wait until closer to New Years Day to do all that and enjoy it for awhile longer.

We had a quiet Christmas day with one of our daughters and son-in-law and their dog Patty.  It was a relaxing day and we really didn’t over stuff on the food too much for a change.  Our weather was perfect, got up to 50 degrees and my husband and I took a walk in the afternoon while the “kids” went to see our son-in-laws family.  Luckily for us we live only 2 1/2 miles from his family so very easy to “share” the holidays without too much running around for them.

We decided this year not to do a lot of spending, we normally buy most everything we want as we need it and really didn’t need more.  Mike did get me a gift card though from Hobby Lobby – we have no local quilting shop or I’m sure it would have been from there instead.  I’m sure I will be finding things to buy.  After all every other week I can print out a discount coupon and the gift card will last even longer!  He fooled me a bit with it though.  He had gotten a fairly flat wooden box and filled it with green pebbles and wrapped it up.  I opened it having guessed right on that and kind of turned it this way and that to see if anything was with it and found the card   The box will hold some small items and the pebbles can hold up a flower in a vase.

Here are some photos’ from our afternoon walk at the Bona Dea Trails near our home, it would have looked prettier with snow – but this is Arkansas after all and we don’t expect snow on the ground for Christmas but are delighted when it does happen: