The cookies are frosted and the milk is poured.

Christmas Eve.   I do love you so. 

I also love my holiday bears.   They are by Vicky Smyers  and I bought them last year as a special little gift to myself-I had been very, very good, of course!  She has others, that are just as delightful  and I am hoping that somebody (mommy?) has one wrapped under the tree for me. 

“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl.  But it warmed more than your body.  It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever.”  

~ Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881-1954), American author, ‘Song of Years’.