Countdown to Christmas giveaway

we're getting pretty close

to the night before the night before Christmas

it has been a great series of shares and comments

and recipes and hearing from all of you!

 tomorrow I'll be able to make a great breakfast casserole

for guests

and I guess some of you learned something new

there is a thing out there called

a

breakfast casserole!!

tonite was the annual boat parade

and the annual lasagna and salad dinner party

(the boat parade isn't really a good phone pic event, I gotta say)

I wore my mother's big old fashioned brooch

tonite

it was my way of

'taking her to the party with me'

maybe it was my grandmother's

maybe it was my aunt's

maybe it was my mother's

brooch

I'm not sure

but what I am sure of

is that there was a little bit of extra sparkle

in my life tonite

because of their memory

we all have memories.

it's what we do with them that matters the most.

let's let those memories sparkle and shine.

instead of bringing a tear to our eye.

enough said.

be.do.create.

natalie.

ps - mascanlon is our giveaway gift recipient for the last post....yaaay!