{"id":3832,"date":"2014-12-22T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2014-12-22T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T17:14:42","slug":"the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=3832","title":{"rendered":"The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is, you know.\u00a0 The most wonderful time of the year.\u00a0 The season of giving and peace and love.\u00a0 Oh,\u00a0 you look around the world and see all the evil that is going on, but what you don’t see very often because it doesn’t make a good news story, is the good that is going on.\u00a0 The nurse in the hospital who gives a lonely patient a little extra time and patience, the boy on your street who helps his elderly neighbor clear the snow off her walk,\u00a0 the man who pays the tab for a soldier eating at the next table in a restaurant,\u00a0 a teen-ager who calls his grandma and asks about her day.\u00a0 There is a lot of bad, but if you look, you will see the good also.\u00a0 There will always be sin in this world.\u00a0 Jesus said there would be wars and rumors of wars.<\/p>\n

We can all make this world a little bit better.\u00a0 It’s the small things that count.\u00a0 A smile, patience for that slow driver in front of you, a kind word, a pat on the back, a hug.\u00a0 What if everyone decided that they were not going to be the problem, but the answer?\u00a0 That we would all decide we would get along with our neighbor, that we would look on the bright side of things for a change, that your life really isn’t so bad if you can get up in the morning and do something for others.\u00a0 It’s time to stop being so self-centered.\u00a0 To stop wondering when things are going to get better.\u00a0 You can make them better.<\/p>\n

I decided quite a long time ago that I was not going to look at the glass half empty.\u00a0 My glass is always half full.\u00a0 If I don’t feel well one day I think I am no better than anyone else and cannot escape the trials of man and accept it.\u00a0 I have lived through tragedies, sadness, pain, separation, and most of the other human ills.\u00a0 We all must face these things at some time in our lives.\u00a0 It is how you face them that counts.\u00a0 I know people who have the most awful diseases who wear a smile on their faces in their adversity.\u00a0 There is one thing they have.\u00a0 They have Jesus in their heart.\u00a0 It makes a difference, you know.\u00a0 At this season rest in the knowledge that God loved us all enough that He came down to earth as a tiny baby and lived among us for a time.\u00a0 He died a wretched death on the cross and took every one of our sins upon Himself.\u00a0 He died but He arose the third day and now lives in heaven.\u00a0 One day He will come back for those who believe in Him.\u00a0 I believe.\u00a0 He makes my life complete.<\/p>\n

I love Christmas because I can give presents to friends and family.\u00a0 I love making gifts and this year I went all out.\u00a0 I can’t show most of what I have made, but I have already given some things away so those I will show.<\/p>\n

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I made felt ice skates for the children in my Sunday school class and filled them with candy and little toys and stickers.<\/p>\n

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I have a friend who loves cats so I made her this little ornament out of felt.<\/p>\n

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The lady I help in Sunday school got this because I told her she was an angel.<\/p>\n

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Another friend keeps bees so, voila!\u00a0 When I found this pattern I immediately thought of her.<\/p>\n

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I was on a roll and made another ornament.\u00a0 I may make more before I’m done.\u00a0 I love working with felt.<\/p>\n

I’ve been knitting up a storm too.<\/p>\n

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Hats and scarves for the children in my Sunday school class.<\/p>\n

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A year or so ago, a nice lady from my church gave me a big bagful of quilt blocks, embroidery floss, a whole quilt that she had cross stitched and several other goodies.\u00a0 She said she gave it to me because she knew I would get some good out of it since I love to quilt.\u00a0 There were enough of these school house blocks to make a full size quilt \u00a0So, I did.\u00a0 I asked her who had made the blocks and she told me her grandmother.\u00a0 I knew I could not keep this quilt for myself.\u00a0 It belonged in her family so this Sunday I gave it to her.\u00a0 It made me so happy to see her smile.\u00a0 The quilt was probably started in the 1950’s and now sixty some years later it is finished and the family can enjoy it for years to come.<\/p>\n

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I think my brothers had pajamas made from material like this back in the day.<\/p>\n

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There were plaid blocks.<\/p>\n

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One block was made with a satin or crepe de chine.\u00a0 Is that spelled right?<\/p>\n

Yes, I have been a busy beaver.\u00a0 And I have enjoyed every bit of the making.<\/p>\n

In other news.\u00a0 Molly Marshmallow continues to grow and grow.<\/p>\n

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Doesn’t she look adorable here?\u00a0 Wellllllll.\u00a0 This dog loves wood.\u00a0 She chews on wood every chance she gets.\u00a0 She has chewed on our house, around the windows, the wooden deck benches.\u00a0 She goes out in the yard and drags up pieces of wood and chips them like a beaver all over our back deck.\u00a0 She climbs on top of the woodpile, I don’t know why.\u00a0 Maybe she is planning on working her way down it.\u00a0 Anyway, today I took hot sauce and a brush and painted it all over the back of our house.\u00a0 Molly immediately started licking it up.\u00a0 Finally she decided maybe it wasn’t so good.\u00a0 I am going to hot sauce everything I don’t want her to chew.\u00a0 She loves chewing the heels of my shoes as I walk so on will go the hot sauce.\u00a0 I hope I have found the remedy to her constant chewing.\u00a0 It’s not like she doesn’t get toys and rawhide bones to chew.\u00a0 I just hope she outgrows this affinity for wood and me.\u00a0 I still love her, though and get a lot of laughs from her antics.\u00a0 If you walk by me and I smell like hot sauce, you will know why.<\/p>\n

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I look at this face and I cannot stay angry with her.\u00a0 She is a puppy and chewing is what puppies do.<\/p>\n

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My Santa rests on the couch before the big day.\u00a0 He’s been asked at the store for stickers and other toys.\u00a0 Little children think he’s the real thing.<\/p>\n

A big package came to our front door the other day.\u00a0 David and I had gone to a Christmas party and when we came home there was this box sitting on our front porch.<\/p>\n

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It\u00a0was for\u00a0me!!!!!!<\/p>\n

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Do not open until Christmas.\u00a0 Oh, no!\u00a0 I feel like a kid again waiting for the big day.<\/p>\n

I knew it had to be from someone I knew who knew I liked chickens because this was on the package……<\/p>\n

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A rooster made out of what looks like an old quilt.\u00a0 Interesting.\u00a0 Hmmmmmmm.\u00a0 Well, I guess I will just have to wait until Christmas until I can open it.<\/p>\n

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Couldn’t let Christmas go by without dressing up one of the hens for the season. This is Ada and she’s the only one who will allow me to pick her up now.\u00a0 She got a little squirrely toward the end of the photo shoot and finally flew out of my arms, but David got a good picture of her.<\/p>\n

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Must go.\u00a0 Just four more days.\u00a0 Hope you are ready.\u00a0 It will come whether you are ready or not.\u00a0 See you on the other side.\u00a0 Merry Christmas.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n

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