Christmas Memories

I'm on!  New computer installed LAST NIGHT! 

I do also, however, have a campout to prepare for four girls, aged 12 to 15, in our backyard, in honor of Ryan's birthday.  Seems the German taboo against having a party BEFORE the actual date doesn't stick in a country with a higher birthrate.  Honestly, mates, you do it when you CAN!

And a cake to bake.  And the computer telling me it has to do some initial scan before I use it.

Great.  It's telling me what to do already.

So...in the interests of my sanity...really, I go nuts when I don't post.....here are two links to Christmases past. 

For the Aussies who want to know what Christmas is like in a cold Northern winter.  (Highly overrated in my opinion, although I'll be the first to admit that Germany does Christmas well!)


http://twintensity.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=50


And for Babette, who liked my spoof on the American Christmas card enough to print it out for her mother two years ago.  My highest honor as a writer so far, Babette.  No matter what I publish in the future I will never forget that moment in your living room with you and Lori, when you whipped out a copy of something I had written from amidst your stack of reading.  Best gift ever. 


http://twintensity.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-greetings-american-style.html

I owe Babette and Lori a newer version of an Aussie Christmas card.

And Anita and Liesl and Lynn-Ann an impression of my first REAL Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere. 

Merry Christmas folks, be it German, American, Aussie or other.