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This time of year, we celebrate - Christians, the birth of Christ; Jews, Hanukkah; others celebrate what they choose, some do not celebrate. For those of you who do take time to remember during this season, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Take your choice but enjoy.

We have had beautiful snowfalls. The term "White Christmas" is close to perfect this year. Here are a few photos taken outside our home.






King adds: To show you how cold it is: The family always wants pictures of us, for fear we have died in the cold (you'd think New Hampshirites would understand cold, but they get more snow than cold.) So we had procrastinated more than normal and on Wednesday Mrs. S makes Littlest take the camera outside and intercepts me before I dump the sport coat for sweats. The effect is:


That's Littlest breathing behind the camera.

Labels: Christmas

Being the holiday season, we have been "out and about" at stores and restaurants for the last couple of weeks.. We decided to wish servers, clerks, etc. "Merry Christmas" instead of the politically acceptable "Happy Holidays."

The response has been overwhelmingly positive. Every recipient has responded with "Merry Christmas to you, too. " One may conclude they feel safe saying it since sometimes, note sometimes, we say it first. However, I have encountered a number of service people who are saying "Merry Christmas" before I do. Could there be a little backlash occurring?

One server at a national restaurant chain shared the following with us. She said the servers had a discussion to decide what to say. They all concluded that they were going to say "Merry Christmas" and the result was that very, very, very few customers objected.

One may or may not be Christian but face it, this is a happy time of year. It does us well to remind ourselves that we have a history of celebrating Christmas. Let's keep it.

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