Category Archives: christmas

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christmas is getting very close.

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“i celebrate christmas with willful glee.”

robert rinder

kindle.

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warm and friendly evening spent

at the annual kindlefest winter market

“christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.”

— washington irving

 

 

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kerrytown, ann arbor, mi, usa – 2018

summer christmas.

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is it one of the hottest days of summer?

is it time for our annual

christmas in july/august celebration?

absolutely.

with long-time friends

turkey dinner

wine

christmas cookies

 stories

and 

odds and ends re-gifts to each other

that we’re highly likely

to re-gift to someone else at a later date

no reason to keep the joy of giving all to ourselves.

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‘christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.”

-bryan white

 

 

 

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image credit: pinterest vintage, petticoats and pistols

merry christmas from main street, ann arbor.

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now (2015)

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and then (1951).

where there is life there is wishful thinking. – gerald f. lieberman

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babies j, b and f

believe

waiting

and

hoping

 for a glimpse

of santa

8 tiny reindeer

and

for

all

of

their wishes

to

come true.

clothing is optional.

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all human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
-alexandre dumas

merry.

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etsy.com

a merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

– king solomon

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image credit: etsy.com

why?

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     now you might reasonably say to me: “why put yourself through all this? why go up to the loft when you know the decorations won’t be there? why untangle the lights when you know they haven’t a chance of working?” and my answer to you is that this is part of the ritual. christmas wouldn’t be christmas without it.’  bill bryson – ‘notes from a big country’

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