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Today we cheated and opened a couple Christmas presents early. The girls received beautiful quilts from aunt Mary Jo in Alabama and a teddy bear and doll from St. John’s Ladies Mission Society. We made M&M cookies with our friends Rebecca and Caleb. Lily and Caleb had such a good time playing together.
After supper Phil went out and for the third year in a row saved this year’s Christmas tree from a cold and lonely ditch. Lily was not very happy to see it coming through the door and wouldn’t get too close. I didn’t want to get too close at first either. There were strange looking nut things attached to some of the branches. I’ve never seen these on cedar trees before so I made Phil do some research to make sure it wasn’t hosting an alien species that would hatch and kill us in our sleep. He discovered that they are “cones”. I’m still not sure about this. Anyway, we turned the tree a few times to find its “best side” (a bit of a challenge with ditch trees) but it looks very nice now with all the lights and our ornaments.
