Merry Christmas, My Bloggy Peeps!

Just got home from our Christmas Eve service at church, and remembered I hadn't yet posted my Christmas greeting to you, all of my wonderful bloggy peeps!

Totally remiss of me.

I can't find the sweet Baby Jesus artwork I had wanted to put up along with my "What Christmas Means To Me" posting, and I've run out of time so this is going to have to do it for now.

I must say that I really enjoyed singing the old favorite Christmas carols in church this evening, and found it especially poignant to do so in a mixed-service with our Spanish speaking congregation, every other stanza sung in different languages. Beautiful.

I also had a Snow Day posting that I never posted thanks to our recent hospital field trip. Would you believe we had over a foot of snow in our desert? And I have pictures of snow on the cacti to prove it!

I'm just full-to-bursting with all that has gone on around here since then...like the MIRL trip to Palm Springs to finally meet up with my bloggy peeps Jenster and HisGirl. OH MY WORD...such fun! They are wonderful Chicas! Just as vibrant, and real, and funny as they are on their blogs (if not more so)...and WAY fun to hang with. So many laughs. Seriously, I would SO do it again!

I wasn't even nervous about meeting my internet friends in real life, because I know these gals pretty well.

But did you know that in meeting up with your blog friends, even those you feel you know well, you will find there is a whole new etiquette in talking to them?

Yeah, apparently saying things like, "It'll be great to finally meet you in the flesh" is creepy and frowned upon. (Sooo glad I decided to use the much more tactful in person when texting and e-mailing to firm up our plans. Major faux pas averted.)

And the whole meeting in a remote location in the middle of the desert didn't bother me too much either. Nor the talk of, "I know where you live now, mwahahahaha" and the clipping of hanks of hair from my head.

Totally kidding.

Kind of.

Ahhh, such fun! I chuckled half the way home thinking of that one.

And I haven't even gotten to how we turned that MIRL visit into a day-cation for our family (who had driven there with me thanks to the possibility of snow again)...stopping off to see the giant dinosaurs that were once featured in a sunset scene in PeeWee Herman's Big Adventure. Ahem, or so I've heard.

It was all quite an adventure...but I'm afraid that's all I can post about it for now.

I've got a turkey to take from the oven.

I decided to go ahead and cook it and carve it up today to conserve oven space for the big dinner here tomorrow.

Well, that and because our thermostat also chose the week of the Blizzard of '08 to konk out and the house is currently very cold. And we're expecting snow.

If I don't freeze to death in the night, I will post about all those wonderful aforementioned things later this week.

(Don't worry, we have space heaters for use during our waking hours, and down blankets for our sleeping ones. We're in no real danger of freezing to death.)

And to leave you with Merry thoughts on the eve of this very special day of the year...I pray you and your families all have a wonderful, reflective celebration of our Savior's birth.

May the Lord bless you and yours both this Christmas and in the New Year.