I'm not good at writing about my own life.  Blogging is a journey using that skill and maybe I'll get better at it as I go along.  Please be patient.

 Life is all about preparing for Christmas last week and this week.  Giving the best of myself to my grandchildren is what I wanted to do most.  I can't give them "things" so much as I can give them myself and my time.  It would be nice to be wealthy enough to buy everything they want, but I'm just not. Even sending cards is out of the question this year except to send eCards.

I received a letter from my oldest daughter for Christmas.  That was the most I had asked for; to hear that she and her children are fine and to catch up on the news of how each child is doing.  I'm blessed to have my youngest daughter and her children close at hand and to spend so much time with them.  They're the light of my life.  Not getting to know four of my grands is a sad, regretable thing, but life is what it is.  Today I'm just grateful to have had contact with them and their mother.  It's as near to the perfect Christmas as I'll see in my life:  my youngest and her two children have given me a reason to be alive and I know my oldest is safe and her children growing up well..