I cannot believe that tomorrow is Christmas! I am SO EXCITED!! But not because of any presents I will get…I’m excited because tomorrow I get to talk on Skype to my daughter Ashley who is away serving her 18 month mission for the LDS Church.\u00a0We only get to talk to her once on Mother’s Day and once on Christmas. Other than that we only get to write an email once each week, so I cannot wait to be able to see my sweet daughter’s smiling face on Skype tomorrow. It will be the biggest Christmas gift I could ask for. Family is what truly matters. Presents will come and go but our families are forever, and I am so grateful for mine.<\/p>\n
I am also grateful for all of you who allow me to share my life experiences with each of you daily. I am so appreciative that any of you would take time from your busy lives to spend a little of it with me and my thoughts. Thank you for that. You bless my life tremendously. So for my gift to each of you I want to leave you with this Christmas Wish:<\/p>\n
My Christmas Wish For You<\/span><\/p>\n My Christmas wish for you, my friend I wish you love and friendship too May you count your blessings, one by one May your journeys be short, your burdens light I wish this all and so much more -author unknown<\/p>\n Merry Christmas to every single one of you.\u00a0 Have a great holiday and I will talk with you again next week!<\/p>\n With Love and Gratitude,<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I cannot believe that tomorrow is Christmas! I am SO EXCITED!! But not because of any presents I will get…I’m excited because tomorrow I get to talk on Skype to my daughter Ashley who is away serving her 18 month mission for the LDS Church.\u00a0We only get to talk to her once on Mother’s Day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[501,500,101,46,251,60,63,8218,5244,551,201,6112,1261,83,4298,51,8220,591,65,55,3079,237,629,464,87,8215,35,2930,351,8221,53,8214,8219,349,8217,8216,145,8213,3044,81,149,740,915,2891,2955],"class_list":["post-6186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciation","tag-ashley","tag-attitude","tag-balance","tag-beautiful","tag-blessings","tag-burdens-light","tag-count-your-blessings","tag-daughter","tag-dreams","tag-dreams-come-true","tag-email","tag-experience","tag-families-are-forever","tag-family","tag-fill-your-world-with-cheer","tag-friendship","tag-gratitude","tag-happiness","tag-happy-new-year","tag-holiday","tag-inspiration","tag-joy","tag-laughter","tag-lds-misson","tag-love","tag-merry-christmas","tag-missionary","tag-mother-day","tag-motivation","tag-my-christmas-wish-for-you","tag-never-grow-old","tag-peace","tag-pots-of-gold","tag-rainbows","tag-service","tag-silver-linings","tag-skype","tag-smile","tag-success","tag-sun","tag-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints","tag-warmth","tag-wishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6187,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions\/6187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIs not a simple one
\nFor I wish you hope and joy and peace
\nDays filled with warmth and sun<\/p>\n
\nThroughout the coming year
\nLots of laughter and happiness
\nTo fill your world with cheer<\/p>\n
\nAnd when totaled by the lot
\nMay you find all you\u2019ve been given
\nTo be more than what you sought<\/p>\n
\nMay your spirit never grow old
\nMay all your clouds have silver linings
\nAnd your rainbows pots of gold<\/p>\n
\nMay all your dreams come true
\nMay you have a Merry Christmas friend
\nAnd a happy New Year, too.<\/p>\n