Paul and I have been watching "Till Debt Us Do Part" together.  As a result we've had some good chats about finances right now.  We're re-evaluating everything.  I am setting up a series of financial goals or challenges for us for the New Year.  Basically, I'm pretending we're the lucky couple on "Till Debt Us Do Part", and I can just hear what Gail would have to say to us when we behave a certain way!!! 

Paul is laughing.  I am so thankful God gave me a husband with a good sense of humour.   This morning he took me up and showed me how to enter money spent into Quicken.  So far, so good...  I also want to learn to set up accounts in Quicken.  I have an older version on my computer.  Hopefully today he can show me how to set up accounts for a business...another January challenge.

Other than finances, we are finally prepared for the Christmas season.  Meghan helped with the Christmas baking.  We ended up baking 3 times!  The first batch went as gifts. The second batch we ate. The third batch went as gifts and the leftovers are sitting untouched for the next week.

I had a friend pray for healing for me over my cold.  I could feel the sore throat reverse and come up my throat and out my mouth when I thanked her afterwards.  I just couldn't believe it!  I so believe prayer works.  But, just to be sure (!!!), I made sure to have some decaffeinated green tea with honey and echinacaea.  But, ever since she prayed over me, I've had no recurrence of symptoms.  I am so happy.  I sang just fine yesterday morning.

With feeling better, I was able to do some prep work for Christmas yesterday.  I made our Christmas Eve tortiere and put it in the fridge.  Put together a saskatoon pie for Christmas Day and popped it in the freezer.  I'm all set!  All the presents are wrapped and under the tree...except the Santa ones. 

I phoned my older lady friends and made sure all of them were taken care of before settling our Christmas plans.  We had Meghan's boyfriend over last night for supper.  He's a good kid.  He finally let us know his plans.  We'll have an extra body for Christmas Day dinner.  That will be fine.

I had a wonderful Christmas card sent to me via email.  Check out Andies Isle and scroll down to "The First Christmas Gift".  It's really beautiful.  One thing about Jesus as a gift...he doesn't wear out and he doesn't need batteries!

I will not be posting the rest of today or tomorrow, so Merry Christmas everyone!