It's almost Christmas

It's almost Christmas. I did my shopping the easy way, gift cards. Yes, I love to get them and they are so easy and I'm sure everyone loves getting them. What can you get for teen-agers? Unless they tell you of something specific that they want, cash or a gift card seems to go over well.
Last year everyone got one of my books. It just came out in time for Christmas and I was so excited about having it in print, I was just busting my buttons. This year not doing so well. Yes, I'm working on the 2nd book and it is going pretty well, but I have a long way to go.
My son Mark set up a new web-site for me and I'm so proud of him, he did a beautiful job.
www.joycecaudelmysteries.com. As I have more information he will post it and I hope you all will check it out every now and then for the updates.
Our family will be celebrating Christmas with two dinners, one on Friday evening then another on Sunday after church. I'm pretty excited to be able to go to church on Christmas morning, it doesn't happen very often. We have three little children that will be opening gifts on Friday evening and they are the only ones that I actually shopped for. That was a lot of fun and I actually found what I went looking for.
My daughter-in-law, Ingrid, and my granddaughter, Natalie, will be arriving from New Zealand around the middle of January. I'm so excited, it has been too long since I've seen them and my son, Mark is even more excited since the family has been seperated for almost six months. Mark and Matthew came in August so Matthew could start his Freshman year at Cheney High School, but Natalie wanted to finish her Elementary school in New Zealand. So that is why the family has been seperated all these months. It will be a joyful New Year for them to be reunited and for the rest of us to have our family complete. With two more major earth quakes in Christchurch, NZ today, there arrival in the USA won't come any too soon.
For all of you bloggers out there, I want to wish you a very Blessed Christmas and a New Year with all the love, health and happiness you are hoping for. God bless us everyone.