Visiting Fun in the Lounge
by GEM
Categories: Around the lounge • Tags: 2019
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The scene of action
by GEM
It is all going on in the Lounge: village, trees, tent, Santa ballooning in.
Categories: Around the lounge • Tags: 2019, decorations, Santa, tent, tree
Fun in the Lounge
by GEM
New addition yesterday, which has distracted us from posting! Straight out of the U.S.
Categories: Uncategorized
Full swing at Fun in the Lounge
by GEM
Tonight we enjoyed having children visit. What does the Christmas story remind us? To look for the child – the vulnerable child in a difficult place, the expected or unexpected child, the child within. James gifted us a handmade card and told me about the three parts he is taking in a nativity play – first child, first shepherd, first wise man. We talked about the clever men who looked for signs and saw a star which they interpreted. All […]
Categories: Christmas story • Tags: 2019, gift, Santa, snow, tree
Another sampling
by GEM
Categories: Decorating • Tags: 2019, elf, inflatables, lights
Just a random scene
by GEM
We are now at the point where most things are done and only the little extras are popped in. Finding a space can be tricky.
Categories: Decorating • Tags: 2019, lights, Santa
Such fun
by GEM
Categories: Around the lounge • Tags: 2019 Santa, musical, New
2019 sampler
by GEM
Treasured tree ornaments
by GEM
Each year I enjoy hanging up a set of ornaments bought at the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County, California in 2006. That Christmas eve I heard a wonderful sermon from the late Robert H. Schuller which contained a family yarn about unwrapping a nativity set and not seeing the baby in his crib. Where was he? An anxious hunt ensued to make good the incomplete set. The figure of the baby had almost been discarded with the wrapping papers. The […]
Categories: Christmas story • Tags: nativity, USA
