It's here!

In my huge effort to find "Christmas" this year, I found out that I was trying too hard and looking for the wrong thing.
I have found it. You guys give wonderful advice! You thought of something I hadn't thought of: prayer. For some reason. it didn't occur to me that I should pray for Christmas to be in my home.
I thought I should change my attitude about this season. That I would say yes to everything that came my way and volunteer a little too.
Here's what I did and didn't do.

Did:
Go to Zoolights
Listened to A LOT of Christmas music (Thanks, Bailey)
Played the piano for Ward Christmas pageant
Learned 2 new songs on the piano
Played through O Holy Night a thousand times
Went to the Train park with friends and rode the train twice!
Christmas Caroling/Hayride (totally helped)
Singing loud for all to hear
Made Cinnamon ornament names for friends
Watched ELF about 4 times
Read everyone's Christmas Cards and Blogs
Fix up toys to give to others
Sang with the Ward Choir for Christmas Sunday
Prayed for my friends that moved away, so close to Christmas
Read A Christmas Carol 5 times, saw 3 different versions on DVD.
Got a package from my brother (in WA) for my parents and wrapped it to take to them
Wrapped Christmas presents
Bought Alyssa her Christmas Dress and her first pair of high heels. (she wears a 6 1/2 in womens (she's 9 yrs old!))

Remembered that without Christ, his life, and sacrifices, all would be lost. We would be lost.
The people that matter in this world are all around me. In the Christmas Carol, the ghost of Marley relays to Scrooge "Mankind was my business! The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forebearance, and benevolence, were, all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business"..."At this time of the rolling year, I suffer most. Why did I walk through crowds of my fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode? Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me?"


Didn't:
Keep a bad attitude.


So, I will say unto you... "Merry Christmas!" Thank you! There is room in my INN!