Christmas Eve

It is Christmas Eve and oh how I look forward to tomorrow. It will be Christmas and it will be a time of fellowship with our family with Christmas Dinner and then opening packages in the afternoon. I am afraid the recession has not hit here yet. It will be here later I suppose though I paid off the credit card bill today. We don't carry credit card debt forward so the surprise should not be too much after January.

I bought an artificial Christmas Tree last year at the 90% off sale and I see now that a 7.5 by 4.5 foot tree is not big enough. Here is a picture.

You can see we have a big Christmas in store and Santa has not yet even come. And Bart and Kip still have theirs to come tomorrow.

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.

A Great Day

I was a bad boy today but had the opportunity to play golf at the invitation of Randy Griggs, my counterpart from Alabama and his son, Scott. Bart could go so we left his house about 7:30 to go to Veteran's Park at Cordele. It was Sunday and normally I would have been in Sunday School and Church but I seldom get the opportunity to bond with Bart and I crave every opportunity because he has grown to be quite a man.

It rained a bit but God must not have been too offended because he didn't ever soak us and gave me one of if not the best first nine's I have ever had. What was way more exciting is that Bart had his best round ever and I was there to witness it. It was his first time breaking 80. He shot a 78. I would just love to break 100 but that could not have made me as delighted as when Bart told me his score. He has a natural swing and if he played more than once or twice a year he would be an absolutely awesome golfer.

I have always been amazed by him in any sport because he is a natural athlete. I am so uncoordinated that for me it is all play. For him it is all finesse. It is art!

I sure wish I had more opportunity to do things with Bart but I guess our schedules just don't permit that right now.

Christmas

Christmas is only five days away and we have everything we have bought wrapped. I am sure we will have a few more last minute gifts.

I hope each of you have a very Merry Christmas.

Family Christmas

Christmas is my most favorite holiday. It is a holiday of remembrance of Christ's birth and a holiday of excitement for children.

Grandchildren have demonstrated to me how lucky a man I really am.

Last night we had Christmas with my Mama and Daddy and the Children and Grandchildren. I loved the present I got from my Grandsons, A group hug. Three little boys all hugging me at once. Wow!

Here is a Christmas Picture for you. What fine looking young men, self included. I was only fifty-two when this picture was taken.

My Birthday

Today is my birthday and I am in Atlanta in a meeting instead of sharing it with family. Yuk!!!

Dissapointment

Inez was to have laryngoplasty today to fix a paralyzed vocal cord but her pace maker has a battery that is nearing life's end and they decided in pre-op that she needed the pacemaker battery replaced before they do the surgery on the voice box.

She had prayed that if she was not to have the surgery she wouldn't. I guess today was not the day.

She will go back to Tifton and get the pacemaker replaced and then back to Emory for the voice surgery.

I was pleased that the folks here confirmed Dr. Johns is the best in his field. They really spent a lot of time discussing the situation and I am glad that there is another day to do this.

My First Christmas Present

I got my first Christmas present tonight and wow what a present.

For a couple months Jason would look at a picture of me and say Papa, his version of Grandpa. When I would look at him and ask who am I and point to myself he just looked at me with this dumbfounded look like, don't you know who you are?

Tonight he and Erika were at the house and he looked at a picture of Erika and Brad, pointed, and said Mama. I asked, who am I and he looked at me and said Papa. My heart jumped for joy.