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Merry Christmas!! I hope that a wonderful 25th was spent by you and yours. If you don’t celebrate Christmas… well, I hope that you had pleasant day regardless.

Christmastime (Advent and Christmas proper) effectively removed any possibility of my posting on a regular basis during the month of December. I was reduced to posting once a week (or less) on both my blogs.

That situation should improve now that January is almost upon us! Christmas purists will know that Christmas is still going on (until Epiphany) - but the most complicated parts for me (the decorating, gifting, and visit home to family) are done. Now I just have to enjoy its remaining days. I have to go to work on many of them, unfortunately, but I do have a weekend AND two days off for New Year, so I shall make the most of what I’ve got. (I plan on baking a “King’s Cake” for 12th Night, by the way. This will be a new tradition for my family… so, I guess it’s technically not a tradition at this point… but I would like it to be so in the future. I’m going to research traditional cake recipes and everything.)

Very little reading was done this month. When I wasn’t distracted with Christmas, I was sleeping. And although I did bring two books along on my Christmas vacation (A Monstrous Regiment of Women and Shepherds Abiding), I did not read them because most all of our time was spoken for. I am still in the midst of reading The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by Julie Lane, and a copy of my beloved The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum arrived with yesterday’s mail! (Thanks, Jeanne at Bookmooch!)

I have three overdue library books (forgot to return them before vacation… eep!) and also received a book from Miss Landis for Christmas…! So I suppose what I’m saying is that I have a goodly portion of Christmas reading to fit in before Epiphany, and also two other books that I wish to start reading (and would like to finish reading, and return to the library) soon.

I also have a book that I wrote this past year that needs to be submitted to publishers in 2009…!  This looks like a busy month and year in the offing… – Mrs. Hall

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