Holiday Season

 351.  Christmas Eve 2018 is here and our house is filled to the brim with family and friends.

I have two trees this year, a live 9 foot in the living room and 10 foot artificial tree in the dining room.

 And of course, a charcuterie was the centerpiece on the dining room table.  We all sat and noshed and talked and laughed.  It was a beautiful night.

 And our dinner buffet was Italian themed with lasagna, my honey's sauce, meatballs and sausage, capresé salad, green salad, bruschetta and Italian bread.  Dessert too, chocolate cheesecake and cookies of course.

"I like to compare the Holiday Season with the way a child listens to a favorite story.  The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns  it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending."  ~Fred Rogers

"I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, He had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it.  If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?'"  ~John Wesley