The Swicegoods
Patti and Allen - Established 1979

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous new year!

A friend forwarded an email to me today with the following thought...

"What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. Make it a good one!"

I thought it was worth sharing.

Merry Christmas to one and all! We hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Christmas!

The snow started sometime during the night and is still falling but much lighter than it was earlier this morning. We are supposed to get between 1 and 5 inches of snow before it stops. That is a big range but we are right on the edge of 1 to 3 inches and 3 to 5 inches on the weather map. We probably have 2 inches already...maybe closer to 3 inches. The wind is blowing so it makes it harder to tell how much is really out there. It is so cold though...13 degrees right now and probably won't get much warmer today. It is warm in the house though and the snow looks pretty from in here. All of the Christmas decorations are in place now. The tree is up and decorated and the village is in place. I still have to wrap some presents but the village surrounds the base of the tree so it doesn't look bare. I'm not sure there is even a place for the presents but I'll stack them close to the tree somewhere. My Christmas cards are in the mail. Everything looks like Christmas. It sounds like Christmas...my wind chime outside sounds like Christmas bells ringing and I have a Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Traditions CD playing. It smells like Christmas...I have a Gram's Apple Crisp candle burning and am going to bake cookies this afternoon. So, I can safely say that at least at our house, "It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas"! I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season with their own holiday traditions and will make lots of wonderful new holiday memories this season!

I am thankful for so many things this year including my home and health but most important to me is my family! We added a new member this year when Travis and Megan got married and our youngest member, Alex, is growing up so fast. We all stay busy with our every day lives but I hope everyone will slow down a little today and stop and think about all of the many blessings we have.

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving Day!