Well I had a wonderful rest last night and I was a new person today.  Good thing too because I picked up my niece from school and had the best afternoon and evening with her.

• My December Daily journal entry will be about picking my niece, Emilie, up from school and having her over for dinner while her mom and dad go to a wedding.  One our way home from school this was a conversation we had:

  Emilie:  “Do you have Monopoly?”
  Me:  “I only have Dog Monopoly, but no one will play with me.”
  Emilie:  “I have Dog Monopoly and no one will play with me either.”
  Me:  “Well let’s have a game.”   And we did.

• This picture is my entry for the iHeartFaces Photo Challenge.  Today’s topic was “sweet”.  This is a two-fer.  The sweet lollipop and my sweet niece, Emilie Grace.
• For “Journal Your Christmas”, today’s journal prompt is about people who make Christmas special.  I immediately think of my mom and Mike’s mom.  Their special touches and care of everyone at Christmas is a consistent joy and blessing.
• 25 Christmas movies.  Mike and I watched “A Golden Christmas”.  Emilie, my niece, and I watched this movie.  Acting wasn’t great, but the dog, a golden retriever, was really cute and then she had a litter of puppies.  Made the bad acting bearable.  Emilie informed me that “A Golden Christmas 2” is a much better movie.

Until tomorrow,

“Dog Monopoly?  I will play with you, but I want the bone playing piece, okay?”