Christmas

We left the island haven that is our home. We traveled to our daughters area. We found a lovely place to stay with a water view. The decor becomes simple but the things most meaningful. This helps ease the feeling you are left with when you leave the island. With me came the velvet stockings...made years ago.....Handmade with red velvet, white velvet cuffs, beaded "icicles hang off the edge, an iridescent snowflake is hand beaded on each one and my cursive writing done in a flourish of embroidery. Our tree is adorned with mainly seashell ornaments and few others. A lovely gilded ribbon, silver and gold is wrapped around the tree going down from the top around and around to the bottom.....colored lights this year bring it all to a brilliant sparkle. A large silk pine wreath is entwined with this silver and gold gilded ribbon ending in a big bow.... The gifts were carefully selected to be personal, many handmade..... Great food, family, friends and the love of time well spent together..... To all who celebrate the birth of Christ....that is how I experience this day....grateful for the gift of life to give to others. Faith is the chain that keeps you ashore in every storm, we cherish every moment in life.