Anna and Trey's tree.

Gifts From the Heart

Vincent took Margaret, Sophia and Cohen to Sci Works, a museum in Winston Salem, on Friday morning.  The children love going to there.  They came back home around noon and the children ran excitedly into my room.   As she pulled this beautiful little bird from a brown paper bag Sophia began telling me she picked out a surprise for me, then she pulled out this beautiful ring.  She had  picked the gifts for me from a consignment shop they had gone into.  I couldn't be more pleased.    
 

Here is Yum Yum resting in her little soft sided box house.  I believe I need, and would enjoy, a people sized one, maybe in a soft beige color.  In my case it would have a door that could be locked and would be called a padded cell. 

 Here Pedro, ( Peddy) is playing with a toy I brought him.  You put treats or food pellets into the ball and the ball has to be rolled around to get the treats to fall out.  Marian half filled the ball and adjusted the hole's opening so the snack food would be difficult to remove.  Pedro pushed the ball around and managed to get a treat or two out.  Marian then took me out to dinner.  When we got home Marian says, "Oh, my god, Mom, Pedro has eaten all of the treats I put in his toy ! "  Peddy figured out how to manipulate the opening in the ball and not have to work so hard to get the food out.  Around three o'clock I woke and went into the kitchen...there in the middle of the hall floor Peddy had thrown up the treats.  The little pig.  I guess the toy wasn't such a good idea.

I came to spend the week-end with Marian and, as you can see, the excitment of Grandma's visit wore off pretty quickly and they reverted to their usual ' rambunctious ' behavior. 

O' Christmas Tree

Make a scrapbook design

Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat.....

Aunt Margaret and Cohen were up early this morning to admire the Christmas tree.
 

 

 

 They had worked very hard on getting it decorated.

Cohen points out his favorite decoration for me to see, a tiny brass tricycle. ( It is there, just hard to see. )

 

Margaret's favorite is this tiny mail box overflowing with Christmas packages. 

Sophia's Pre - K class had their Christmas play today.  Of course, Daddy, Mommy,  Cohen and Grandma' were there.

 

  To the left of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus are a cow, a donkey and a swine.  I'm sorry I couldn't get a better picture of them.  Their ears were much to be admired.

 Sophia was one of The Choir of Angels.  

 

 

 

There were the usual number of sheperds along with a what appeared to be few field hands and the Wise Men who brought gifts to honor the Child King.
 

After the play the children took  off their costumes and gathered to sing Christmas carols and distribute gifts they had made for their parents.  Cohen  went to the front of the room with his sister for a few minutes before the children started singing. 

After the program there were refreshments for everyone.  Sophia was caught by suprise with the inevitable post festivities let down every star feels when their big show closes.

 

 

 

After a talk with Daddy and some Mommy hugs the star compossed herself and we were able to have a post production lunch and go to the park to play.  It was a busy day indeed.

PRAYER FOR PEOPLE OF NEWTOWN, CONN

                                                                        

                                                 Jesus with the Little Children  


Come, O Jesus, Come!  You, who above all else, love the Little Children, Grace and Comfort the young ones that have been subjected to the greatest evil of this world. Wrap them in your loving embrace and still their frightened hearts and minds.  Restore their spirts, O Lord.

Come, O Jesus, Come!  Wipe away the children's every tear and send them consolation in their sorrow and fear.

 

Come, O Jesus, Come!  Send the Little Ones the blessed comfort and embrace of their earthly mother and father to teach them the way to love and trust again. 

 

Come O Jesus, Come!  Strengthen and enlighten the parents that they will have the  strength and ability to parent and love all of their children as you desire. 

 

Come, O Jesus, Come!  Bless the departed children's brothers and sisters in their grief and carry them through their grief and the emotions they do not understand with your healing light and grace.

Come, O Jesus, Come!  Bless the people of Newtown that they will overcome the horror thrust upon them and keep them unburdened from guilt and lingering fear.

Come, O Jesus, Come!  Comfort all those that came to the aid of the teachers and children as they now bear the burden of having seen the true work of evil. Unburden their minds and spirits, O Lord.

Come, O Jesus, come! 

We ask this through the Holy Innocence of Your Childhood and through the Love of your Blessed Mother, Mary.

            Amen

                                 

                                                        The Holy Family