Sweetieland

Today was another snowy day in Alabama. Christmas yesterday brought the gift of an unexpected snowfall. How delightful to wake up and see huge flakes of beautiful white snow falling and covering everythingwith its freshness.  It was a different Christmas for me, the children were in Arkansas, my husband deployed to Afghanistan….it was the seven…

Christmas 2010.. It’s not my nature to plug into pity parties, but this morning I was enroute to a royal one.  Christmas eve, children at their other parents, husband serving others in Afghanistan, father battling cancer in another state, mother already in heaven….friends far away.  The house was quiet, filled with the trappings of Christmas…the…

    The Christmas season brings so many things to mind for me.  I remember days long ago with my mother in a small kitchen in a tiny town, preparing gifts for others. I remember riding in a Model A car to deliver a Christmas ham for a man who helped my father and grandfather a…