I know I've said this many times before but I love this time of year! I love the season and just the feeling in the air! We kicked off the first of the month with a family Christmas Party on my mother-in-laws side of the family. I love spending time with them. I mainly know the girls since we do a cousins lunch every few months but they are such a fun group to hang out with. I also had my work party the second week. I really feel blessed to work where I do and to be around such great people everyday. Dr. Chowdhary hosted the party at his house. He and his wife cooked dinner. We had real Indian food. I loved it. It definitely has a kick to it, but it was delicious. We also played a game with the gifts that we brought. I enjoyed the night. Granger also held a company lunch at the Gathering Place at Gardner Village. It was beautiful. It was fun to take a long lunch and meet others from the other offices. I also came away with a gift card to Target. Great for this time of year. We also got together and did the annual Gingerbread houses. This year grandma Gardiner came too. I found out she use to decorate cookies and cakes in a bakery. It was fun to see what she did with her house. My in laws have also had us over for some Christmas activities. This month has been busy with Christmas things and I love it. I wish you could feel it all year long.
On a sad note, Tragedy struck in CT last Friday when there was a shooting at an elementary school. My heart goes out to those who were part of it and who lost family members. It is awful to think that someone is filled with that much hatred to go on a rampage anywhere, but an elementary school? It has been great to see this nation unite and its sad to see that it took something awful to people to step back realize whats going on. I only hope that things can get better.
I was happy to see that even after the shooting that there is still good in the world and charity exists. We had a huge storm this weekend and I honestly didnt know about it til I was ready to walk out the door to do errands. I walked out to one of my neighbors snowplowing our driveway. It made me feel happy. He didn't have to do that yet he chose to help us so that we can do our errands and stuff. I hope that we can all be charitable. Not just during this season but all year long.
I know this post is just a lot of my rambling and thoughts but I had a good experience yesterday and felt like I should share it. I had an opportunity to attend a Special Needs Sacrament meeting at church yesterday. It is probably one of the coolest things i've done in a long time. I've heard people sing " I Am A Child Of God" a million times at plenty of meetings, but I have to say when this group of people sang it, It was just a testament to me that each and everyone of us are children of God. I've always believed that but I just knew yesterday. I know God Lives and that he loves us and I'm thankful to have the Gospel in my life.
I hope everyone enjoys there Holiday season.
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