[MamaB]

I know what you mean. On last Thursday, hubby had gone to bed very early since he was not feeling well. I got on the couch and was watching tv. All of a sudden, I started crying my eyes out for no apparent reason. I cried for about 30 minutes and I was ok, again. I guess it hit me that Jan would not be here for another Christmas, ever.

[GretchenM]

Christmas, First Family: the Fox News ticker said that, reportedly, the president gave his wife jewelry and a DVD player for their Crawford ranch; and she gave him clothes, a book, and biking gear.

[GretchenM]

Bush reads up on Teddy Roosevelt, US troops

Reuters/ABC News | 12/27/05 | Rueters staff
Bush reads up on Teddy Roosevelt, US troops Reuters CRAWFORD, Texas - President George W. Bush is spending part of his Christmas holiday reading about the post-presidential years of Theodore Roosevelt and the lives of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Bush was reading

"When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House," by Patricia O'Toole,

and

"Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground," by Robert Kaplan

while on holiday at his Texas ranch, said White House spokesman Trent Duffy. The book about Teddy Roosevelt is about the former president's African safari and his attempt to re-enter politics...
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