Merry Christmas To All

Merry Christmas, everyone.

I hope you've enjoyed a breakfast with your loved ones and shared some smiles and hugs beside the tree as everyone unwrapped their lovingly-chosen gifts.

As with a traditional chocolate-filled Advent calendar, the doors to all my daily ornament stories were opened by Christmas Eve. I hope that some of my stories made you smile, because I had fun writing them. I got a lot of writing practice done, and I'm pretty proud of myself for getting through 25 straight days of posts. I think I'll take a few days off now to think up some new stories and thoughts to share, and to stretch my wrists and fight off the carpal tunnel issues that are surely settling in.

Here's a list of the ornament stories, in case you missed any:

December Blog Project

1. The advantage of sensible shoes
2. It's not real, but it's spectacular
3. Bonjour, hi.
4. Night Owl
5. The Best Game you Can Name
6. The Chocolate Moose
7. Interdit
8. Reindeer Prints
9. She said Duh!!
10. Unphotographed Memories
11. Yes, Virginia, this is a honeymoon
12. Chocolate Raspberry is a Gateway Coffee
13. The Christmas Pageant Where I Was A Beet
14. Mononuclear summer
15. Fighting for the Top Spot
16. The hills are alive with Mozart
17. Cruisin' on down to Awesomeville
18. Ring in the Season
19. Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves
20. WYSIWYG
21. (Guest post) It’s Kind of Like They’re the Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen of Christmas Ornaments
22. Plate it Out
23. Home
24. Not Pony Tails or Cotton Tails But Duck Tales (woo-oo) 

A final thought to leave you with, courtesy of Dr. Seuss:

Christmas Day is in our grasp
So long as we have hands to grasp.

Christmas Day will always be
Just as long as we have we.

Welcome Christmas while we stand
Heart to heart and hand in hand.