A Christmas Card from Our House to Yours

Merry Christmas!  I wanted to share some pictures which were taken at our house over the last four or five days and a bit of verse to go with them.

The kitchen chimney on a very cold morning.

The view toward our little house next door that same morning.

 

Recalling Christmas the Old-Fashioned Way

 

Charles P. Isley

 

Yellow lamplight flickering

On frosted windowpane . . .

Sound of sleigh bells echoing

From every country lane . . .

 

Holly wreath with crimson bow,

Fastened to the door . . .

Yule log sending fireshine

Across a polished floor . . .

 

Fragrance from the kitchen range

Permeates the place . . .

And a sort of hungry look

Comes to every face . . .

 

Paper chains and popcorn strings

Decorate the tree . . .

Lighted candles will reveal

The sweet nativity.

 

May your joys be manifold

This Christmas Holiday . . .

As we recall His holy birth

In the old-fashioned way.

 

Poem from Ideals magazine, Vol 18, No. 4.  October, 1961.

 

Marjorie the Margin Gem cooking Christmas goodies.

 

Our Christmas tree.

 

 

And let us not forget this very important verse:

 

 

"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."  Luke 2:11

 

 

Merry Christmas!