Pat thank you so much for the Holiday wishes. Going right back for you also and the gorgeous pictures. I LOVE IT!!! Hope you have a wonderful 2010 and that we can share many great moments with our love to brugs, together. Lucy

Christmas Day Ricky Ginsburg - Christmas, any year you'd like Nearly eight thousand miles south of the northern tip of the globe, yet only a few milliseconds flight by sleigh (nine deer-power, greased rails), on an island not much larger than your neighborhood, a content and well-fed deliveryman sat on the trunk of a fallen palm tree and peeled a banana. At the other end of an invisible eight thousand mile-long-string, a black woman with perfectly straightened hair and considerable girth lay naked on a bed of fresh goose feathers and straw, waiting for the driver of said sleigh, just as she'd done for centuries. Only this year, he wasn't coming home. Click to read the rest...

Thank you, and may you have the same…a very Merry, peaceful Christmas.

I still bake my mom's traditional christmas pasteries, but we stopped exchanging gifts several years ago. The young people all have little kids to get presents for and my generation already has everything we need (except energy). I did buy myself a couple of things and then my sister dropped off two gifts. One from her and one from Annie (her standard poodle who I dog sit on occassion.) Annie often gets me little gifts. My one friend who lives in California was going to be alone on Christmas Day and had also gotten two small gifts, so we decided to talk on the phone while we unwrapped our gifts so we had someone to share with. The first gift I unwrapped was a soap infused bath scrubby by Spongelle (From the dog) My friend opened her first gift - a soap infused bath scrubby by Spongelle! She then opened her second gift - a travel pillow! I opened the gift from my sister who had said she knew we weren't supposed to exchange gifts, but she could not resist buying this: A pillow! Couldn't believe that we both got the same gifts, albeit her pillow was not as charming as mine.