Merry Christmas to You and Yours!

Here it is Christmas week starting tomorrow! Already! WOW!

I want to thank the Lord for coming to this world and then to die on the cross to save ME from sin. He is soooo good to us. How can we not say 'Thank You; and I love You Jesus!'?

Our childrens Christmas program is in the morning. We have only one grandchild small enough to be in this program. All the rest are in NYI! Can you believe that? Tomorrow night we will have a concert by one of the guys from our church. He does this every year. His name is Rod Hopkins. He does a very good job with this. Last Wednesday, the 10th, we had our 'all church Christmas party'. Our church does something that is awesome in my eyes. They buy a gift for every child that comes to the church. Not just the ones that come to Sunday School, but the ones that come on Wed. nights for Caravans/Kids Club and NYI teens and youth groups. We are a blessed church to have such faithful and giving people. Praise the Lord for their generosity. The Sunday School teachers also get a nice gift. Also, we have a Christmas card exchange program. We address the cards to everyone in the church and put them in a 'mailbox' in the Fellowship Hall. They are then put in each individual stack per family. Since we do this this way, we do not mail them by USPS. We put the money that we would spend on stamps in the box as well. This money goes for the Nazarene Compassionate Ministry program. Our church is a very mission minded church. This too, I am very thankful for.

We have not had the money to have the surgery for Rusty yet. Hopefully we will be able to do this in the near future. We could have had it done if I had not needed tires for the jeep. I bought 4 new tires and had a blow out on the right front one before the week was out. I had to buy another tire. Total ended up being $750.00 for the 5 tires. I told Jack and Lyndsy that was my Christmas present. I had to have them because of my job. I could not deliver mail without them!

Lyndsy is still babysitting. She has the little girl's brother and sister today. The parents wanted her to watch all 3 while they went shopping for them and without them. Hmmmmmmmm wonder why that is??????? Couldn't be Christmas Day, could it? Gracie's brothers name is Noah and her sisters name is Abby. These 3 children are just as sweet as they can be. Lyndsy enjoys Gracie so much. She tells me about some of the things Gracie does and says. They are so cute.

I will be delivering mail most of the next week. I will be off on Tues. and of course Thurs. as it is Christmas Day. Right now I am the only sub that is in the Robeline Post Office. I even sub for the clerk in sorting the mail to the routes. Our Postmaster has retired this past week. Thursday was his official last day. He was there Friday to show the OIC, officer in charge, where things were and what was needed for this office. We will miss Russell very much.There will not be another one like him. Thank you Russell for all your help and caring and understanding for this old lady learning a new job. I really enjoy delivering the mail on the two routes weekly. I run route 2 on Mondays and route 4 on Saturdays. We do not know who our new Postmaster will be. The OIC will be there until then.

Must go and do something other than sitting here at the computer. HA-HA!! Hope you all have a wonderful and glorious Christmas. Remember why we have Christmas. He gave us the gift of love by sending His Son to take our place on that cruel cross.

H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y, J E S U S! ! ! We love You....

Love to all.....