I LOVE Christmas—the colors, the decorations, the gifts, the baking and special time with family–but more than anything I love the celebration of Christ’s birth.

We celebrated yesterday since our kids need to go to our daughter-in-law’s family today, but what a blessing it was to have everyone together with our 8-month-old granddaughter, Kate! Smiles, giggles, kisses and lots of pictures accompanied our time together.

Now, on to a brief bit of business before I close. Thursday night at midnight I cut off subscriptions for this newsletter. You can still subscribe, but you won’t get a copy of the one I’m mailing on Friday with the big contest and prizes!

If you use the form here on my blog to subscribe, be SURE you check your email afterwards, as you’ll be getting a message with a link to click on to confirm your subscription. And please be sure you watch your email on Friday (and your spam folder), and add my email to your approved list for all future newsletter–miraleef at gmail dot com.

Merry Christmas to you all!!!