The MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone thread

**BlessedMomof2** · 12-18-2008, 07:28 PM

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

**oct2667us** · 12-18-2008, 08:53 PM

My Prayer for you this Christmas
is that you each may find
This season filled with blessings
That bring you peace of mind.
May glad tidings bless and keep you
safe from all you fear
As you celebrate .and enter the new Year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all FV Friends,,,

**fernykins** · 12-18-2008, 09:29 PM

Merry Christmas ... Happy Holidays............ I want to thank everyone who visits FV and makes it a wonderful and caring place
Fern

**LeeCee** · 12-18-2008, 09:56 PM

happy holidays to one and all

**frugalbabe** · 12-18-2008, 10:52 PM

Here's wishing everyone a holiday filled with crazy relatives, too many calories, lots of laughter, love, and most importantly peace. And to all of those shouldering especially heavy burdens may the New Year bring the resolutions you seek!

**Patty A** · 12-19-2008, 09:09 AM

Wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas, and a New Year filled with Blessings.

An Old Fashioned Christmas

I was doing some Christmas shopping
in a great big shopping mall;
there were stores on every side of it,
even set up down the hall.
I was looking for a special gift
but things all looked the same,
the clothes and toys and videos,
and those new 'lectronic games.

Another thing, in every store
that always looked the same
were signs that read: "Have an Old-Fashioned Christmas
and thank you, come again!

Now folks, I'm no spring chicken,
I've seen more than fifty Christmas' pass;
it's not the gifts that mean the most
it's all the fond memories that last.

I remember an old fashioned Christmas
when we'd chop down a fresh cedar tree;
we'd string lots of rosehips and popcorn;
the trimmin's were homemade and free.

The stockings we hung on Christmas eve
were the kind that came off of our feet
we'd always leave cookies we'd made with our moms
so Santa'd have something to eat.

Of course, Santa came every Christmas
but he'd only leave one special toy,
or maybe some clothes or a new pair of boots;
just one thing for each girl and boy.

You never were fighting no mobs or crowds
in a great big shopping mall;
we'd just go to town on Saturday night,
the local Dime Store had most all

of anything one could ever want,
and every one-horse town
was full of friends and neighbors;
folks would drive in for miles around.

The women would trade their cream and eggs
for groceries, and of course, Christmas candy;
that was the only credit back then
before Credit Cards got easy and handy.

We'd have the best Christmas programs
at the church and the old country school;
the men would all stand in the back of the room,
there was a shortage of chairs as a rule.

And remember how Grandma and Grandpa
would bring only one gift for us all?
It was usually homemade and practical
.....back then, grandparents didn't buy out the mall!

And that good old Christmas music
didn't come from no stereo set;
just dad on his fiddle, we'd all join in;
it still is the best music yet.

Speaking of dad, he'd get out the Bible
and read us that old Christmas story;
it wasn't about Santa or elves or a sleigh
but it sure filled our hearts with joy.

See, I remember an "old fashioned Christmas"
like those signs read all over that mall.
I will bet you'll agree, after listenin' to me
that the "old fashioned" kinds best of all!

Yvonne Hollenbeck