Christmas Now and Then

Annie

and

I

just

watched

Now and Then

the perfect

little movie

to watch

after

trimming

the

Christmas tree

It

is

starting

to feel

like

Christmas!

My

wish

of

finding

an

uNshEaREd

Fir

or

Pine

Christmas tree

(one that doesn't look like a upside down ice cream cone)

in San Luis Obispo

was

an

IMPOSSIBLE

task!!!

l

was

hoping for a

happy

tree

(like this one)

but

BIGGER

but,

alas,

we went

for the smell good tree.

a

Grand

Fir

Backing up

......

it

is

tradition

for

the whole family

to decorate

the

Christmas

Tree.

Sometimes

I sigh,

looking at the

Pottery Barn catalog,

or

Romantic Home Magazine

or

Country Living Magazine

The

Christmas

trees are

always

perfect!!!!

Our

Christmas trees

are

a

family effort..

a family event!

..

we

ALL

decorate

the

tree

into

a

handmade

beautiful

mess

of

Christmas Memories

It

is

increasingly

more difficult

to

corral

adult

children

-

I bribe them

food

always works!

This

year

we

decorated

our

fragrant

upside down ice cream cone

after

a bribery

of

delicious

cheesy

Fondue

paired

with

Four Vines Zinfandel

FYI

puppies

and

ornaments

NOT

a

good mix

Christmas 2010

silliness

abounds

.....

Memories

of

Christmases Past

John and his three brothers circa 1953

Santa, Andrew and Annie 1989


After the SLO Christmas parade 1994


First Christmas card as our "new" family 1997


Serious Christmas card 1998

with Bingo and Betty


Our first Christmas with Wally 2003


decorating the tree 2004


Christmas with John's Family 2004


Christmas in Paris 2002 (just before we opened Petit Soleil)


Christmas 2009

Finding

Christmas

pictures

from

years

past was quite a

task

lost disks,

fried hard drives,

misplaced albums

etc.

It made me sad

to have

lost

photographs

of

Christmases

past.

now

driven

to preserve

Christmas

NOW

and

in the future