Monday Musings for November 24, 2014

So today is day 24 of the NaBloPoMo challenge, and I have now been blogging for 55 days straight (including today).  I have really enjoyed participating the Ultimate Blog Challenge in October and the NaBloPoMo challenge this month.

It amazes me to think I have been able to come up with that many blog posts in a row.  I have almost written more posts in the past two months than I had since I started our blog.

Sometimes thinking of a blog post title can be difficult.  The words tend to come easier for the actual post than the title.  I want and need the title to catch attention and draw interest to read the post.

In three days, we will be celebrating Thanksgiving.  We have everything for our meal except our turkey.  Dennis will pick that up on his way home from work on Wednesday since we are getting a fresh turkey from a local grocery store.

Also, we have the possibility of having 2-4 inches of snow on Wednesday.  this could make life interesting.

Last night at almost 9 pm we received a visit from the pastor, his wife and his daughter of the church in our new town that we have been attending.  Every year their church gives out Thanksgiving meals.  This year they decided to bless our family with one of those meals.  It meant a lot to us to receive this gift.

In one month, it will be Christmas Eve.  There is so much we need to do to get ready for the holiday.  Yet nothing we need to do is as important as focusing on the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.   Our Christmas may be a simple this one this year, but we certainly can turn our hearts and minds to what the miraculous birth of this baby did for our salvation.

So what is on your mind this Monday?  I would love to hear from you.

NaBloPoMo Day 4 - My Favorite Holiday Memory

It is day 4 of the NaBloPoMo Blog challenge and today I am writing about my favorite holiday memory.  This memory is one we try to make every year and have since we were married.  It did not necessarily occur on the same day every year. But it was something I loved doing.  We would load up in our van (or it is possible we would do this on the way home from somewhere) and just drive.  The sole purpose was to see the Christmas lights on all the homes.

For me, what color the lights were wasn't what was important.  What was important was to see the lights.  My husband always found the most beautiful displays of lights for us to see.  Back in North Carolina, there was an older neighborhood that you could drive to the very back of and find magnificent new homes that were huge.  These huge houses wound up having beautiful light displays.

As the years went by, we  tried to add some things to our routine.  One was to visit our local Christmas tree farm.  This farm had grown from just selling trees to having a Christmas store, a restaurant, a hayride, farm animals and other things.  But our favorite part was the hayride they introduced that took you all around the farm and had various displays set up to look at.  The lights were spectacular.  They had Christmas music playing throughout the display.  So all in all, it was a wonderful experience.

So this is my favorite holiday memory!  What is yours?