can you feel the love?

      Hello, everyone! I wanted to say a very warm Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all. This last week has been full of winter things, mostly very enjoyable - people and catching up and lots of music and cheesecake and very cold days. Mark and I are heading off to see his family tomorrow for a little while and I am as happy as a ... as a person all snuggled down in a deep chair with a creamy hot mug of something just thinking about it. But, as it is, everything accelerates just before the end and a hundred loose ends are waiting for bolon knots and a sailor's heigh ho! before I'll be ready by morning. Our little car packed to the gills with toques and mittens, extra blankets, clothes and gifts, leaving our snowy driveway behind to hit the long highway south to freedom and shops and family and Christmas.
      In particular I wanted to say how MUCH I have loved being here, right here where you are, this year. I love it. I have enjoyed all the comments from those I know and those I don't. You've been a source of great encouragement. Words you've written in a quick second of kindness and thoughtfulness have brightened my days from front to back, so, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
      Hmmmm. This is starting to sound like a goodbye speech. It isn't! But maybe just for 2007. I will return in the New Year. I hope and pray peace for you all in the next weeks. Christmas isn't a 'holiday' for everyone and maybe you just need to survive. So I hope that too.
      Looking forward to chatting soon!

      Truly, merrily,
            Colleen
            xo

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