I love the Christmas season. Though it is often a little too packed. My mom’s birthday, my birthday, Christmas day, New Year’s, and my sister’s birthday are all packed into a 3 week window.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year….Well, I like spring and summer and fall also. I love all the seasons. As a side note, do any of you tell “scary ghost stories” at Christmas time? Last year, my family and I were at Arches National Park on Christmas day. How fun was that? Very fun. Christmas roadtrip around the southwest. So, I know I had my Christmas cds with me in the RV…and now, this year, I can’t find them. 
They must be at my mom’s house somewhere. Lots of my stuff is still there, because, you know, I was moving into my grandparents house temporarily 2 1/2 years ago. I loved the Christmas road trip last year, but it will be nice to have a more traditional Christmas this year. And really, I have a great job. They give me lots of time off. Pretty much anything I request. Which is nice.
My tree is decorated beautifully. Vanessa helped me hang the lights outside on Saturday, and we made persimmon pudding with persimmons that she liberated from a tree. But since Jesus is the reason for the season… ( I wonder if Christian bookstores are still filled with everything imaginable with this phrase on them. I haven’t been to a Christian bookstore at Christmastime in a while.) So, my house is all festive for the season, but I didn’t have a nativity scene and this made me sad. I was my mom’s house the other night, and she told me that my nativity scene was there. Having no recollection of having a nativity scene, I was eager to see what she was talking about. My recollection of it is still kind of fuzzy, but I know that I bought it in Honduras.
I really like it, because it is not all glitzy and gaudy. It is very primitive perhaps. But I love that about it. It is made out of natural things, such as leaves and cornhusks and seed pods.
So, yeah…that was a very stream of consciousness post. 
My name is Rhonda. I am blessed to live in a beautiful place out in the country with my wonderful husband. In addition to our "real" jobs (I work at a garden center and he is a teacher), we have a small farm where we raise vegetables, eggs and chickens to sell at local Farmer's Markets. We are currently fixing up/remodeling a house into which we will soon be moving...hopefully. In my free time, (what is that?) I enjoy traveling, cooking, crafty projects, reading and watching the sun set on the hills.
Christian bookstores don’t sell stuff that says “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” anymore because they don’t actually believe that anymore. hehe.
I like your nativity. We love getting ours out. We have two – a nice one and a fun one. The fun one is very small, and all the pieces have big smiles. So we have this teeny tiny smiley baby Jesus. He makes me happy. I like to put him in my pocket and take him to church on Sundays.
(Was that sharing too much?)
That was not sharing too much. I often wish I had pocket size people to take with me places. And what is better than a pocket size Jesus.
Sorry, Kari, I finally approved your comment. Debt consolidation made it through, but apparently you made the red flags go up.
We have one of those ceramic nativity sets and a few years ago the kids played too hard with them and now most of them are headless! They still work.. kind of! Jesus never makes it past the first Christmas of any set we buy.