My daughter made me laugh with this phrase. She also added “and there are already people who have the lights up”. I thought it was funny.

Christmas Day was a nice and quiet day for us together with our youngest. The oldest was in Whitecourt, Alberta with her boy friend. The middle one was in Edmonton with her girl friend. We just have been hanging around, reading, doing chores and some work in the house and for dinner we had cheese fondue (special request of my daughter).

Boxing Day they all come home again. No, no running around at malls for us. None of us like to do that anyway and nowadays it’s hardly necessary. The sales will continue the entire week anyway so why frustrate yourself with walking around surrounded by endless rows of people. “Not my forte” as they say.

So we had a great evening with secret Santa gifts, more gifts and food. Too much food. And too much wine too. But we all had a lot of fun, a lot of laughter and a lot of joy.

And that’s what Christmas is about.

(One of my gifts were nameplates for all my horses and my foster horse)

www.bearvalleyab.org for more information about where I fostered one of the mares.

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