The Maxwell girlsIt is Christmas morn before the house awakens, time for me to muse. It has been an incredibly busy month and so hectic that little notice was taken of the winter soltice, the shortest day of the year. I have always felt that the placement of Christmas in the calendar year is perfect.

Winter WonderlandIt is Christmas morn before the house awakens, time for me to muse. It has been an incredibly busy month and so hectic that little notice was taken of the winter soltice, the shortest day of the year has come and gone. I have always felt that the placement of Christmas in the calendar year is perfect.

Funny how things change. When my two sons, Clayton and Daniel, were growing up they were doteing, protective, loving and affectionate. They were older before they stopped kissing me goodbye when I dropped them off at school.

Living in Canada makes for a fall work load that my siblings in Kentucky aren't familiar with. Closing the cottage means turning off and draining the water, covering the windows, protecting the beach from the inevitable wash out with the ice, and tightening up the building so that little critters don't move in.