Christmas Day

Merry Christmas from the Sceggels
The dinner is over, the kids are all gone and it is now Mark, I and the dogs. We had such a blessed day. We spent the morning in church where Craig Stickling had a wonderful Christmas service. He read first in Isiah where it was written For unto US a Child is born, then in Matthew, He tied in the US through out the entire sermon. Christ came for US, He died for US. We also heard how THANKFUL we should be. After church There were 12 of us around the dinner table, such a small group for Christmas but in a way we were able to enjoy each other even better. We had medium rare steak that had been marinated for hours and was almost fork tender with such a good flavor, mushrooms sauteed in real butter, fancy french cut green beans that had been cooked in chicken broth and as David said, "best ever!" sauteed onions, baked potatoes with butter, a salad with all the fixens, sweet rolls that were brushed with honey butter sauce, and for dessert, hot coffee, a pecan sweet roll with french vanilla ice cream, whip cream and drizzled with caramel sauce. Mom tried to tell the eaters to SLOW down, today we DINE but everything just tasted so delicious that the plates were soon emptied. After our dinner Mark read in Philippians and tied it in with the Christmas story.
We settled down in the living room by a roaring fire just visiting and digesting, with some of us taking cat-naps. Mom and I took Nancy home around 4:00pm, hung up her new bulletin board with her Christmas cards and put her gifts away. The roads were pretty bad with blowing snow, it took us over an hour to go the 12 miles to Morton and back. Mom left for home and the kids started playing games around the playroom table. We made a big batch of popcorn to nibble on during the games.
It is hard to believe another Christmas has come and gone and 2009 is almost over.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE, I pray yours was as blessed as mine.