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In case you are wondering, yes, it is one of my cats sleeping under the tree!

And also, I know my tree is not the prettiest one going but there is a reason to it:

Every year we (in the general sense) go out, looking for the perfect tree. It has to be just right, even, not too thin but not too full, straight and with no holes. It has to be just like we have seen it in pictures...
Why? Why can't our trees be just as faulty as every single one of us?
God does not ask us to be perfect...
He accepts us just the way we are. And just think of all the Christmas trees, we have quickly discarded when searching. Maybe one of them, even with a missing branch here or a bit of a lopsidedness there would have made just the tree our heart was looking for?
Why does everything always have to be perfect...?

We now make it a point to get a tree, that has a fault and make it look the most beautiful tree by pouring our hearts into decorating it.

Thirteen Ornaments hanging on out tree:
1 ….


We bought those 3 years ago because I like how they look like Gingerbread!

2 ….


Acquired by my younger one on the "Christkindl Markt" in Nürnberg

3 ….


My younger ones first Christmas

4 ….


Also my younger ones first Christmas

5 ….


My younger ones third Christmas

6 ….


My Dad gave me those two :-)

7 ….


My eldest first Christmas

8 ….


Also my eldest first Christmas

9 ….


My younger ones second Christmas

10….


Acquired by my elder daughter on the "Christkindl Markt" in Nürnberg

11….


Given to me by my godmother along with a few others. They are handcrafted from straw
12….


Given to my by a very dear friend a long time ago.
13….


A silver wire star I made this year!

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Guess what...

Well, it was just about that time again wasn't it...?
I am sick as a dog again with a sore throat and a runny nose and a head like a bear (or in this case a Snuffleupagus)!!!!!



Oh well, at least we had a nice Christmas!
Here is a picture of my tree.
I will hopefully get a better one from my mum... (hint hint)



And as I suspected, the kids have only stopped playing Singstar to eat, sleep and go skiing...
It is wonderful and heartwarming, but I need some of these:



I am off to bed now!
I have to be better when Simon comes on the 30th!!!

Got me pretty much down to a T....

You Should Have a Blue Christmas Tree

For you, the holidays represent a time of calm, understanding, and peace. You avoid family fights, and you don't get too stressed out - even when things are crazy! You like to make Christmas about making everyone's life a little bit better. You don't get caught up in greed or commercialism. You're too sincere for that. Your blue tree would look great with: Lots of silver tinsel You should spend Christmas Eve watching: It's a Wonderful Life What you should bake for Santa: Chocolate chip cookies

What Color Christmas Tree Should You Have?

Apart from the fact, that I would never put up a blue tree and I hate tinsel (because the cats attack it and try to eat it....), this is pretty much me down pat...

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Thirteen ways to say Merry Christmas!

The first one to post what language each one is and what it means exactly
wins a silver wire star mentioned in this post!

1…. God jul och gott nytt år!

2…. Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!

3…. Kala Khristougena kai Eftikhes to Neon Ethos!

4…. Pozdravljaem vas s prazdnikom Rozhdestva Hristova i s Novym Godom!

5…. Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia i Szczesliwego Nowego Roku!

6…. Buon natale et felice anno nuovo!

7…. Joyeux Noël et une bonne année!

8…. Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!

9…. Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo.!

10. God Jul og Godt Nytt Aar!

11. Um feliz Natal e un próspero ano novo!

12. Gozhqq Keshmish!

13. Naadelik looan na looan blethen noweth!




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Of Shoes and Reasons

So after I dealt with "The Car" today I took my older daughter to get some decent Winter boots. She has outgrown 3 sizes in the last year. Funny thing, shoes.
Buying shoes size 7 for my 10 year old daughter made me reminisce.
The last time I bought her shoes, which she managed to wreck within days of her getting them, the last time I bought myself shoes, which were a pair of pumps for her first communion, the look on my younger daughters face when she unwrapped the pink and orange trainers she had been so desperate for, the time Simon and I bought shoes to go with his good (and very expensive) suit, which was the first time he went to a proper Italian shoe store (he usually gets his shoes out of supermarkets), the Ropers I bought in Del Rio the last time I visited my Grandparents.
Shoes tend to stick in my mind.
I think shoes say a lot about a person, more so even than clothing does.
If you are a comfortable person, you would never, ever wear stiletto heels, not even with an evening gown.
Do you wear a skirt and trainers?
Are you the type of person that wears the latest Esprit Imitation Fur Suede Leather Boot even when it is completely impractical and you will get them wet and dirty because there is about a foot of snow outside your door, but hey it looks good (for about thirty seconds)?
Are you the guy with the long hair and the "Birkenstocks"?
Are you the girl that proudly wears her Prada shoes with a 20 $ Suit from JCPenney's Outlet? Are you the person, that wears shoes until they fall off?
Shoes, I think, really say something about their wearer!

On another note:
I tried to explain to my mother today, why I was "wasting my time on blogging, when there is so much work to do" quote she.
My mother - another one of those long stories for another day.
Well I told her, that, and I gave that reason in another message on a different Website today, it is a sort of New Years Resolution.
It is a way for me to actually face my own reality.
I am a dreamer and as such sometimes loose my grip on things that matter.
I also am a person that likes to avoid unpleasant things if I can help it.
For all that I have Simon. But he is not here now. This is my of coping.
A means to view my life from a different angle, (with the help of other peoples perspectives) to go back and reconsider decisions and judgements I have made.
It is a way to, for the lack of a better phrase, better myself?!
I guess it is also a way to get to know myself.
If I try to explain my thoughts, my actions to others it forces me to think on and about them. Why do I do that? Where did that thought come from? What caused me to act that way?
I suppose this blog is a sort of mirror.
The preview is the quick glance we tend to take but the publishing it is like standing in front if the mirror and really looking at yourself.

Oh and I do have to take my christmas tree down! My cats have already broken two of the decorations and it is starting to loose branches, not needles, no! Branches!
Christmas trees aren't what they used to be!!!!