This Christmas

This Christmas will be the best Christmas

We have ever had.

Laughing and singing happily

With our friends and family

We'll kiss under the mistletoe this Christmas.

Okay, call me sentimental — or not — but we took down our tree today. It had been up for three weeks, and it was very dry. Time for it to go! Like I said earlier: the tree's the thing. We'll save our presents for Christmas and leave up our few other house decorations until Dec. 26. Then it's all back into boxes to wait for the mystery of whether I'll get another tree bee in my bonnet next year.

My mind is already on next year...but not as far as Christmas. Time to forge ahead into the rest of my life, which is much less time than I like to even imagine...but still, it's the rest of my life!