Merry Christmas 2010
The fog hovered over the field as I awoke this morning the day before Thanksgiving 2010. The house is quiet as we await the arrival, one by one of our Thanksgiving guests. What better time to pause and think of Christmas which is the sum total of all Thanksgiving!
2010 has been busy with trips, time spent with family and friends, puttering around the house, gardening, lazing in the chair with a book, and, ever so often, just sitting on the screen porch watching the birds at the feeders.
Klep oversaw the expansion of one of our local parks the first three months of the year.
In March my mother went with us to South Carolina to meet her youngest great-grandchild.
April and October were Tennessee months in Winegar Hollow where we enjoyed old friends and family. We managed to slip down to Greenville several times to see the kids.
In May, two years of effort culminated in the 50th high school reunion for the Jasper High School Class of 1960. I saw classmates that I had not seen since we marched down the aisle of the now defunct Jasper High School auditorium. We spent an evening reminiscing to the sounds of the 50’s supplied by Rob.
In April we celebrated Leila Kate’s first birthday with a party in her back yard and in May
we celebrated Ava Grace’s fourth birthday at her favorite restaurant, Red Robin.
After we got the house painted this June, we headed to Memphis to do our Highway 70 across Tennessee trip that we had been planning for years. Of course we made several side trips off the old highway. If you want more details, it is further down here on my blog.
In August we celebrated my mother’s 87th birthday at the Smoking Pig in Valdosta before we flew off to Alaska for a tour/cruise.
Again, there are pictures and details on the blog. Alaska and the Yukon were awesome!
We got back from October in Tennessee and left the next morning for Bowling Green, Kentucky for Aunt Agnes’ funeral. She had been blessed with 103 years of life. While we were there we met cousins that we had never met and reconnected to others that we see way too seldom.
November has been settling back in, getting new steps and walks, and getting ready for Thanksgiving followed by Christmas.
December 18, I return to our missive as we realize that we enter Christmas week tomorrow. We have celebrated Thanksgiving with our house full of family, welcomed our friends in for an afternoon of caroling and snacking, and now we look forward to the final countdown to the celebration of the birth of Jesus which we will do here at home after a quick trip to South Carolina for a little pre-Christmas celebration with the Karolina Kleppers.
We wish you all Joy, Hope, and Peace this next year. May His blessings pour out over you and yours.
Barbara and Klep
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