Christmas is meant to be about the memories of love shared with others and that's what I hear in your treasured memories. Christmas is also meant to be a time of giving. This is the time when Christ gave up heaven to live as a man to offer Salvation to mankind. We still give at this time of year in this tradition of giving and that of the wise men bringing gifts to the infant Christ. May the Joy of the season fill all of us, that we may share the gospel with all we meet by sharing Christian love with them. David Bailey -----Original Message----- From: guide.chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:guide.chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of clare moulds Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 7:51 AM To: Guide Chat Subject: [guide.chat] To Carol Good afternoon Carol, oh I loved reading all the articles you sent in especially the ones about craft the calendars and notebooks. I also loved hearing about your memories of Christmas from when you were younger very interesting. Oh the good old days eh. Things are just not the same anymore oh how things change. I can't imagine though not having any heating I feel the cold so don't think I could cope with that but of course I wouldn't know any different back then as what we don't have we don't know about. When my grandparents were alive that's my dad's parents we would always go over to visit them on Christmas morning after opening our presents. Then we would come home for Christmas dinner. On boxing day we would have dinner at Grandma and granddad's which was always lovely. We never saw much of my mum's mum. Her dad died before I was born. Auntie Pearl and my uncle Les when he was alive always used to come over to visit too. When uncle Les died though Auntie Pearl would stay at Grandma's and would still do that when granddad died. Then when Grandma died Auntie Pearl started staying here and she has ever since. Well there's some of my memories of Christmas. Well I'm chilling out today with my medicine of course and our little Jamie is here while Elaine works in flower shop. Meghan is at nursery. Love Clare xxxx