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Funny you should bring up the issue of God being left out. With our moving the office and then the ice storm, I am waaaaaay behind in my Christmas preparations and hadn't even bought Christmas cards yet. So this afternoon that particular piece of shopping was on my list of to-do items.

I was shocked! Admittedly the selection has been picked over by now as it's so late to be buying cards. But it was difficult to find cards that even said Merry Christmas instead of Season's Greetings. And finding anything even remotely religious was nearly impossible. The few that I found were really ugly. I finally found one box at the grocery store that was acceptable. We send out Santa cards and such to some of the people on our list but like to have some with a religious theme also. I have never had the trouble finding some that I did this year. Next year I will shop early and go to a Christian bookstore!

I've had quite a day! Spent some time at the office ..... I'm trying to figure out how to use WinXP which is right much different from Win98, especially for a computer dummy. And I'm trying to get files transferred from this computer to the new one there.

Finally got away from the office and went to do some shopping. The stores were crowded ....... I wish I could just yell "fire" or something to make all the people go away but I don't think anyone would appreciate that ..... *grins*. Everyone up here lost several days because of the ice storm and are making up for the lost time.

I finally got my shopping done and came home to find a message from daughter-child on the answering machine. She spent the day at the emergency room. She either has appendicitis, a kidney stone, or had an ovarian cyst rupture! They don't think it's the appendix but can't absolutely rule that out. She definitely has a small kidney stone but they don't think it's causing her pain. It's most probably the cyst. The wanted to run some more tests but she was feeling better and needed to pick the kids up. The Jerk will have them all next week and she wanted a little time with them. So she insisted on leaving the hospital ..... and is hoping for the best.

After talking to her for an hour, then I called my s-i-l about my m-i-l. M-i-l has been in such extreme pain that she can't even sleep these days. She has finally seen a pain management doc and tomorrow they are going to give her a steroid shot in her hip to try to ease the pain from a nerve that is caught up between deteriorated discs in her lower back. Hubby is leaving early in the morning to go take his mother for that procedure but he will have to come on back home. His sister sent an email saying that she is going to leave tomorrow afternoon to go down there and will stay til Saturday or Sunday. I needed to talk to her to get all those signals straight.

And now hubby has just gotten home and he doesn't know most of this so I need to go and fill him in.

Back later.

I don't know if you have a store called Tuesday Morning near you. It is a homegoods discount store with some very nice items. They are not open daily--they'll be open for a few weeks then be closed for re-stocking. Anyway, I was there several weeks ago and they had some exquisite cards depicting the Nativity.

I must say, my position regarding God being left out is I don't fear the situation is as dire as some. In fact, I think it is getting better. This show I just watched was spectacular. The last "Animal of the Nativity" was the dove. They spoke of the presentation at the temple and then the narrator reminded us that a dove appeared over the head of Jesus when he was baptized--and they depicted this. It truly was a wonderful show.