and...

we made homemade marshmallows.  Now that's a cup of hot chocolate!

Okay one pix to a post; blogger is agreeing to that!  Here are Angel's skates all done and ready to set by her front door.  Pretty!

Skates and Stars

Seems I can still only load one pix at a time.  So, here I will show you the pretty Stars we made at the retreat with grasses from the woods and beginning to decorate the ice skates with greenery. 

One at a time...

Still struggling to put pictures on my blog; maybe one at a time.  The weather was not bad and here we are across the street in the pines, gathering a bit of nature to make stars from dried grasses and twigs and to decorate our ice skates.  A magical place.

A Christmas Retreat

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.  Anonymous

One picture loaded with my son's computer.  Just a little spot in the pines at The Center.  More when I can!

The Christmas Retreat was so much fun this past weekend, but I am having troubles with my computer and can't seem to post pictures even with using my son's.  Bah humbug!

Still celebrating

My "club girls" took me out to dinner for my birthday the other night and we had wonderful food at Luby's in Tinley Park.  And look at this celebration dessert!  One candle?  hmmmmmmmmm.

Me and my friends of 55 years!  They're just like sisters to me; a wonderful thing to have such special friends this long.  Oh, and see my pretty necklace?  A most beautiful gift from my very special cousin Joanne and family in Maryland!