Thursday's Cold.....

 New gift to us is the creche made from wood.  It is special because it is made from scrap olive tree wood from the Bethlehem area.  We were at the shop two years ago where it was sold.  It was located just down the hill from the Birth of Christ site. 

A gift to my wife is this menorah.  It is made of gold and silver metals. The symbolism is one of the six days of God's creating of the earth and the seventh day of rest. I ordered it online from Israel a few months ago and I was thinking I wouldn't probably get it by Christmas.  It was an amazing sound of the knock on the door, the day before Christmas, and there the box lay on the steps. The post office must have been doing their final clearing out of all of their boxes and they were delivering during the day just packages, not a part of the normal mail route.

Angels were removed from under the tree and placed on this shelf. The company would not cause problems but they are young and stepping on them was possible. The actually look good all placed on the book shelf.

A good memory we will have is of the three kids coming upstairs in the morning.  They hung out around the television and slowly woke up.  It was nice that they made themselves at home and we were so glad to have them for two days. 

We went out for pancakes this morning.  The place will be closed later this week and winter storms are predicted.  We stopped afterwards at the grocery store to stock up things for two or three days of hibernation.  I needed to pick up a med that was ready for pick up.  There was a line at the covid shot counter which I was glad to see.  Young and old were in the line.  We have our booster so we have done all we can do for that.  I didn't mention that it is so cold out there and we are home now trying to get rid of the chills.  I get cold even going out to the garage to get birdseed.  It is officially winter in Iowa now with snow on the ground and storms predicted for more.

Thanks for stopping by today.