The day was full of promise and it turned out to be just wonderful! A very good day.
Starting off with our Sunday School class party at Beth Dildine's, there were 21 of our class present! Lots of good food, fun, visiting with one another. Stephanie tries to "keep order," but with as many as we had there, it wasn't easy at times. We ate, made the "class picture," had a devotional about the meaning of the candy cane as related to Christ and His sacrifice for us, played the "(W)Right Family" game, passing gifts at the "right" and "left" words until we each had a thoroughly mixed and traveled gift. Beth's home was decorated so beautifully, and we had a great time. Thanks, Beth, for having us! We really all enjoy each others' company, even as wide as our ages range! (There are two pictures, but one has me and one has Stephanie on the left. A really good way to solve this and have one group picture would be to remember the tripod or learn how to Photoshop one of us in the picture! Both things I need to work on.)
I went to the post office to mail Sher a gift for her tree and she's to open it when she gets it. She just doesn't know what it is yet - a stained glass tree ornament of the Episcopal Church, a historic building, in Iuka. Tiny and charming. Brenda bought the ornament for me last year, put it up for me, forgot where it was, and this fall when I went to see her, she had found it.
At home I just had time to arrange the bows that Nikki Garner (with Cordial Cottage) made, on the grapevine wreaths for the carport and front door. I left a mess of debris because it was so cold outside in the floor but Paul vacuumed it up when we got home...
From Salinda's party at her daughter Tabitha and son-in-law Kerry's house - Salinda and my dads are brothers (her dad has passed away), but I didn't meet Salinda until Paul's 10th class reunion. Her husband Richard was in Paul's class. Salinda's folks lived at Paden before moving to Memphis. We always have a great time with them when we're together. This was her 60th birthday and she had lots of friends and family there. I think her sister Brenda's daughter and Salinda's middle daughter, whose house we were at, could be sisters, they favor so much. Salinda and Richard married when she was 15! And they've been happily married for well, 45 years! Amy got to come and we were so glad to see her, too! She's been working for a friend as well as getting some hours at Northridge FH. We met some sweet people and one lady decided she should receive one of my banana nut bread loafs (loaves?) at least once a month. I will try to send her at least one! Sweet little lady with a great sense of humor - Martha. AND - small, small world! - we met a lady who, when she learned we live in Wynne, said she had a cousin who lived there - JoAnn, lived on Ouida Street. Of course, JoAnn Snider! The family resemblance was there and the sweet personality. I called Tom on the way home and told him, having his cell number since he retired from Woodruff. (Opal is JoAnn's cousin's name and she must still be on her honeymoon either long or recent, because she and her husband held hands the entire time! Cute!)
Salinda opened many wonderful snuggly, comfy pjs, robes, and house shoes, including two pair of mismatched ones! Wonder how that happened?
The little girls loved Amy's lap. Someone asked me if that was my granddaughter.
Dawn helps Daniel (Tabitha's son) focus.
My cousins Salinda and Brenda. They had another sister Barbara who died about two years ago.
Richard, Jana (youngest daughter) and Salinda. 
Your cousin Opal is very sweet, JoAnn!
See any irony in the shirt Amy has on at a birthday party?
The lady with the green Christmas vest is Martha, who really wants the banana bread. She can probably make it to beat what I took, hands down!
Paul explains how he knows Tom and JoAnn, to Opal. And probably is politicking some, too.
Very tired when we got home, and still Oscar to walk, and alllllll the way around the block, not just down the street - and it was Cold! I think he just wanted to walk and pull me around the block, because he didn't have very much business to attend to!Beautiful day today, too... Church and Sunday School this morning. Special music of a quartet from our own choir - Wesley Davis, Mark Clark, Gerald Britton, oh, me, I knew I'd forget the other and I don't think I know him... Wonderful! A friend of Brother Matt's was visiting and he preached this morning - Dr. Bart Box. After our lunch today, I got started making the city departments' brownies (three double batches, which I mixed with my new stand mixer, which I wish I'd gotten 40 years ago! Wow! It holds and mixes! So far only brownies, but I can tell it will be an arm and neck saver!), and addressed many Christmas cards, listening to WRVR Christmas music. Another walk with Oscar, sorted through pictures from camera (still a lot to learn there), and finishing this up. There was no church tonight so that SS classes could have Christmas parties. Paul's class is going to meet next Sunday night after church for light supper, at Kelley's; and ours met yesterday - just scheduling issues...
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