5 Days until Christmas!

Hola--

The days are swishing by, getting us closer and closer to Christmas Day.  One good thing about living far away from people (??!?) is that you "have" to get your Christmas shopping done early.  Our frantic buy/wrap/package/tape days were 10 days to 2 weeks ago.  By now, the things that didn't get done?  Won't get done.  And that's okay!

I was browsing articles on http://www.usatoday.com/, and they had a whole album of Christmas at the White House photos.  Most of them are from this year, of course, but the last 10 or so were of U.S. Presidents of the past.  Almost every president had a dog, it seems!  Let's see if I can get this one loaded of President Kennedy and Jacqueline...  

I also liked this one of President Reagan and Nancy.

Well, we are also counting down...we get to go on a Christmas cruise this year, to take advantage of HP's "mandatory shutdown" between Christmas and New Year's Day.  My mom will come with us for a week visiting Cozumel, Belize, Honduras, and Costa Maya, then we get to visit for a weekend with Frank's parents, the Whitesells in Florida before we return.

We've had a mild November and start of December here in New England, but now the cold temps are here!  I look forward to the 70's and 80's.  I never get tired of that weather.

If I don't post again this year, Merry Christmas and Happy 2012!

Kari