Happy Holidays

Brian, Moe and I would like to wish all our readers (we're hoping in 2012 we will hit double digits!) a very Happy Holiday Season.  Whether it be Christmas, Hanuka, Yule or Servitude to the Shopping Gods, we wish you all the best for the Holiday Season.

Our Christmas present this year was obviously Moe.  The 6 pound 7 ounce bundle of fun and attitude that we added to our little family in November.  Having a dog in the house again has been the best gift we could have given ourselves.

This is turning out to be a bit of an odd Christmas for us.  We both decided that Moe was enough of a Christmas present for both of us, so we did very little shopping.  As much as I HATE snow, the weather has not really been very Christmasy.  Since we are leaving for Florida the Wednesday after Christmas we didn't put up a tree or a lot of decorations.  A few here and there just to avoid complete Scroogedom.

All of this is leaving me and Brian with sort of a feeling that we are not "doing Christmas".  But if I may get a bit sentimental for a moment, all the things the Holidays represent; family, friends, gatherings, gift giving, that warm and fuzzy feeling the Holidays conjure up......   we are lucky enough to have all year long.  Not just on Christmas.  And I know, a big part of Christmas is to remind us of all we have and a great excuse to get together with loved ones, but please remember - if your Christmas is not a reenactment of "White Christmas" or "It's A Wonderful Life", happiness doesn't happen just one time a year.  It happens all year long.  Sometimes we just don't stop long enough to realize it.

So, once again, from our house to yours HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!