Christmas Past: I remember, however vague, the look of the old courthouse. I watched many a parade, on looking as the floats went by. These were the better of my many childhood memories.

Christmas future: I love being home for Christmas and I love when it snows on Christmas, but I have this daydream of spending Christmas by the ocean one year. I love the idea of having a cottage with a fireplace while the waves hit outside and a Christmas tree in the window. So I hope to spend a Christmas at the ocean in my future.

Christmas Present: it’s an exciting Christmas in my house, because this year I have a beautiful new baby to share his first Christmas with. He’s only four months old so he doesn’t know what is going on other than he likes the lights on the tree.

Christmas Past: every year my family hangs up this old ornament of an elf and we jokingly call it Cammy. Cammy is a cousin who we teased about her ears when we were kids and then named the elf after her. Every year we share this joke and now send her a picture on text messaging to let her know we are thinking of her. It sounds a little mean, but…Read More