Christmas week 2005

Well, here it is only 4 days until Heiligenabend (Christmas Eve). We have had lots of snow lately to really put us in the mood for a trip to Poland on the 23rd.

This was taken Saturday, along the Lahn River in the Westerwald edge of Hessen, the state we live in.

Where we go in Poland already has about 1 meter (about 3 ft) on the ground! My knees are still not so good, so I will have to be content with a beautiful horse drawn sleigh ride instead of a 2000 meter mountain climb.... oh well, maybe next year.

Did all my Christmas shopping online this year. German postage is soooooooo expensive: a Christmas card to USA is almost 2 dollars; so you can translate that into how much a small package would cost to mail.

Sister is spending the holidays with her children in CT, so I am missing our everyday chats using Yahoo. However, hope to talk with her today on Skype. Aren't these new freecall sites just wonderful. I hardly ever use the telephone anymore and when I do, I use the lowcost numbers we have here instead of high priced Telekom.

Here are the pictures I included in the few cards I did write.














CW and JS
Christmas 2004 in Braunfels Germany




Cass and Alanna

Son Chris is home safe and sound and Cass is one happy girl. I keep the Mothers of soldiers still overseas somewhere close to my heart this season and count my blessings that he made it home safely.

I will post again after Christmas