Best Time Of The Year....

Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home

May the miracle of Christmas fill your heart with warmth and love. Christmas is the time of giving and sharing.  It is the time of loving and forgiving.  Merry Christmas to Everyone!

It goes without saying that Christmas is my favorite time of the year.  People seem to be merrier and there is so much love going around that the warmth engulfs you and for that brief time known as Christmas everyone seems to live in harmony.

All over the world there are happy faces waiting for that day just to open up their presents....for some it may be a ton of presents for others maybe just one or sometimes not a thing...

Growing up we were not wealthy.  Our presents were not many if any at all  but the love we shared as a family was more than enough to make each and every Christmas better and better.

Many may have forgotten the true spirit or meaning of Christmas.  Remember it is not always "I want" , I want" but sometimes the best of times are those spent sharing with family and friends and just enjoying each others company.. One of the nice things about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with a present....

From our home to yours: HAPPY HOLIDAYS

May the Christmas season fill your home with joy

your heart with love and your life with laughter:)

Nadiya, Arvid and Brutus….

The best Christmas of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another....

    A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world...

~Nadiya~

Christmas Wishes...

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:  the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other....

My favorite time of the year has always been Christmas and still is. Christmas day is also my mom's birthday so it is doubly special.  I remember from my childhood days when we would all wake up very early and my mom and dad would gather us all around the tree while still in our pajamas. My dad would read us a verse from the Bible.  We would all listen very attentively, you see my dad is a good storyteller and whatever he was reading to us always came out in the form of an enchanted story.  We all loved these moments and looked forward to it yearly.   Those days will forever be cherished in my memories and never be forgotten.  My parents continue keeping this tradition to this day.  Now my nieces and nephews also look forward to it...

I also realize the holidays are not the favorite time for many. Today everything has become so commercialized. Many in the younger generation look forward to receiving and have forgotten the true meaning of Christmas...

For me it's a time of sharing, and being with loved ones.  I like everyone do like receiving presents, but this is not what I think of when I think of Christmas....I remember certain aromas from little.  There was baking, cooking, decorating the tree, caroling and most of all there was lots of love and laughter all around us. 

Arvid is not crazy about Christmas...never has been, but I am hoping that little by little he will get more into the spirit especially since we have been spending Christmases with my family and they sure know how to get into the Holiday Spirit:)

MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL

This year again Christmas will be spent with my parents and one of my sisters and her family.  We are both looking forward to this and even though it will be cold, for a few days just to be around family everything seems better.

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen....

~Nadiya~