Though I’m falling short on Christmas spirit this year, I can get just enough stirred up to share my Christmas greeting for the year. (For those of you have other faiths and holidays to celebrate, I want you to know I send you greetings as well!)
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That’s a very beautiful card, Doug! Wishing you all the best and a good ending of the year!
Thanks! The best to you and Mr. Bowie as well! One thing I noticed after I posted the photo of the front of the card is there is a curious 3-D effect. I’d like to take credit for planning that, but….! Not nice to lie this close to Christmas! LOL!
Yes, of course, Freddie, Frankie and Pharoah agree, the box is the most important part of any Christmas gift!
Show me a cat that doesn’t hold his or her paw up in support of our cats’ affirmation of the importance of boxes….!
That is a beautiful card, Doug. A Merry Christmas to you and the boys from all of us here!
Thank you! And the same to you, Rick and the Salmon Brook Farms menagerie!
Aw merry chrismas you 3!!!!!
Thank you, Ritu!
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My very best wishes to you, those darn cats and all of your lovely readers.
Thank you, Yvonne! My hope is all my readers have a much happier 2017 than many of them (including me!) had in 2016. Things began to lighten up, for me, toward the end of the year, fortunately.
That is a sweet card.
Thanks! Andy and Dougy are naturals for a nonreligious card.
Bah hum bug but I love the photo of sweet boy in the box and spring is only 96 days away.
Yeah! 90 days…I might make it!
Love the card(s). Those kitties 😻. Thank you!
You’re welcome! It’s one card, front and inside. Those who got the actual card get a thumbnail print on the back showing Dougy in a box. Andy’s yawn on this card, though, as the winner for the big shot!
Thank you, the three of you – Do have a nice, sweet, warm Christmas time 🙂 Amitiés – france
Thank you! Que vous ayez un Joyeux Noël et un très heureux 2017!
Thank you Doug, Andy, Dougy for your Christmas greetings .
I wish for you some sweetness for Christmas . Keep hope , and faith.
In friendship
Michel
Thank you! May you and Janine have a wonderful Christmas, too!
Thank you for the card and I don’t have guilty decisions: throw out, save forever, recycle or what. Anf it’s a great thought too. I have a little bit of spirit but 2016 was such a slog of a year all round I am just celebrating that it’s almost over. My Mom was the big mover at Christmas and it’s just not the same without her.
I’d send everyone an e-card if everyone had email! Of course, I had to have the card made so I could photograph it and get enough made to send those family and friends without email….
Thank you. I like the card. Thanks
Great! Especially after the loyalty shown me during my two month plus absence for illness and rehabilitation, I wanted to make sure I did something for the readers of this blog this year.
I’m just glad you are able to do it. I’ve been awol a lot this year.
It does take a fair amount of effort to keep up a daily blog, for sure. When dealing with health issues, too, that energy just isn’t there. I hope 2017 finds you in a better position to keep that blog up on a happier schedule! Hugs and prayers, Susan!
Thank you. I had a long doctor day yesterday and at the end, my cancer doctor said that I am cancer free. That was definitely a good gift.Of course I will have to be diligent and not be stupid.
And a blessed Christmas and a year that gives life.
Talk about the best gift possible for Christmas! Congratulations, Susan! God bless and may you have continuing cancer-free years! I’m very happy for you!
Thank you!
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Cute! thank you
I miss both my parents and one all the people in that generation and ancestors before that. At Christmas I think about them and feel sad but not painful
Yes, exactly! With y father’s death, there were no more of his immediately family left. My mother was the only child in hers. The oddest feeling, though, on my mother’s death was the realization I had become a an orphan in a technical sense, though I was in my mid-60s at the time.
You went through a lot this past year and so did the boys. Hopefully next year will be an improvement.
One thing about it, GP, it would be hard to have a worse year! It f=did get better toward the end since my physical strength is up, the new car proved to be a good move from the standpoint of easing my life since it is a station wagon (and a heck of a lot of fun to drive!).
I knew you’d find something to be thankful for. 🙂
Exactly!
I am not one for the Christmas spirit either….my mother died on Christmas Day 1979 and I still cannot generate any good feelings….chuq
Oh dear! My mother died on January 5th in 2013. She spent Christmas and most of December till she died. When I sorted through her things at the care center where she spent the last years, there was an unopened Christmas present from the center. I opened it. It was warm bed clothes, a bit too late. I feel somewhat the same about Christmas as you, though losing your mother on Christmas Day definitely is the worst possible Christmas.
Yeah &AM on the day…really is a bummer…sorry to hear about your mom…chuq
It brought my brother and sisters closer together since we were all that was left of the immediate family.
It had the opposite effect on my family…
Not knowing the circumstances (or needing detail), I can only say I’m sorry you have that experience. In my family, there was little money or possessions involved after both my parents spent four-five years in the care center. None of us had issues with any of the others with regards who got what, etc.