Home for Christmas

"'ll be Home for Christmas.  You can count on me.

Please have snow and mistletoe and presents 'neath the tree"

When I think of 'home for Christmas' many different things come to my mind:

• A beach house on the Oregon Coast
• A busy Christmas Market in Barcelona
• Our house crowded with people for a Christmas Eve Celebration
• Reading The Polar Express and Luke 2 with our now grown up children
• Breakfast pizza, hot chocolate and fruit on Christmas morning
• My boxes and boxes of Christmas decorations, many of which I've had since I was a little girl
• Steaks and potatoes for Christmas Dinner
• A Christmas afternoon movie
• 4 children, a son-in-law and a husband
• Piles of presents 'neath the tree
• The stockings, lovingly made by my mother, hanging by the fireplace

Home for Christmas is wherever my family happens to be living the traditions we cherish and making new ones as our lives change. 

But if I have to think of one PLACE that means 'home for Christmas' to me it is a small, one stop light town in the south - Lonoke, Arkansas.  I've spent more years away from Lonoke than I did living in Lonoke but there is a special place in my heart for this town that means HOME to me.

And this year I'm going to spend a part of Christmas in Dixie as I fly down to attend my cousin's son's wedding.

It's Christmas in Dixie, snowin' in the pines

Merry Christmas from Dixie to everyone tonight.

God bless ya'll, we love ya.

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas ya'll!