This will be our first Christmas without our children here. Robert has been gone for a while but now he is married and he and Nicolette live in Chicago, IL. Cara got married this past October and she and Nik live in Oceanside, CA. Christmas will be different. Instead of the two or three trees that I usually put up, it is down to one simple tree, it is beautiful though. The lights alone make it beautiful. I put up the nativity scene that Pat and I bought right after we got married, 32 years ago. It brings back lots of memories. Usually I have a nativity in every room, including the bathrooms. Everywhere you went in my house I wanted the true meaning of Christmas to be remembered, and I still do even though there is not a reminder in every room. We are having a simple Christmas this year.
