How do we celebrate while we hide in our
Abodes, waiting for a vaccine, waiting for
Peace of mind, waiting for life to
Pierce our inertia with hope that we can soon say
Yes to traveling and hugging and eating out again?
Home has been our one and
Only safety net, which we’ve filled with our
Love of baking and Zooming and working on
Incredible 1,000-piece puzzles of birds that
Demand our attention until we suddenly
Admit we’re doing okay, even though we
Yearn for health and happiness in 2021.
Happy Holidays to my friends, far and wide.
Love this..Happy Holidays to you too!
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Thanks for visiting here Shelley- to worldwide connections❣️
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This is lovely, Pam. Merry Christmas to you too.
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🎄❤️
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Very nicely constructed
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Thanks Derrick. Love writing acrostics. 🎅❤️
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Ya,so nice
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Lovely words to read this AM. Who made the little one ( ornamet ) on the tree? Good health and holidays to you and your family.
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Handmade by women in Kazakhstan, I was told! 😍
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Yes to all of this, Pam. Happy holidays to your and yours!
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2021- YES❣️
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You described the life and feelings of many. Is that a Dr. Faucci ornament? Have you heard of Faucci on the Couchie? Keep smiling, Pam … Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to you and yours.
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Yes, a handmade Dr. Fauci ornament given to me as a gift. I understand that these one-of-a-kind ornaments sold out in a day! :<3
Dr. Fauci on the Couchie sounds fun too. Not that we ever sit on the couchie, right?? 🙂
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That is so cool! I think Jimmy Kimmel is the one who did Fauci on the Couchie. It was funny! As a takeoff on Elf on the Shelf, it was a dressed in blue with his face saying things as one passes … Don’t forget your mask …etc
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Merry Christmas to you and your family, Pam. Happy puzzling! I’m working a tough one now, but nearing the end. xo
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Never tried puzzles before this … Covid time. Patience needed for both the lockdown and putting together the pieces. ;-0 I must admit (to be fair) that my guy did most of this (with some help from the 10-year-old grandson who thinks puzzles are “soothing” and “relaxing.”) ❤
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Your grandson is wise! ❤
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Must take after… well, you know who. 😁
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Happy holidays to you and your family, Pam! Lovely post and lovely sentiments.
xo Amy
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Thanks for enjoying my little acrostic poem, Amy! Merry 🎄 Christmas ❣️
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Superb poem and home that became our sanctuary and let us all rejoice now and forget our past. Happy Holidays Pam.
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I believe after this pandemic we will all appreciate our home as sanctuary more than ever before, knowing the safety it offers. And perhaps I’m talking about the home of our heart as well. ❤️
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Yes Pam I completely agree with your words.
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Love this! Merry Christmas to you! We are all in this together, and yes, we are doing okay! 🙂
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Keep on keeping on, Linda. May 2021 prove to be a lighter brighter year! ❤️
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Yes, yes, and yes!
Happy Holidays to you and yours, Pam!
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You are a YES woman, which is one of the (many) things I like about you! Be merry and drink eggnog. 🎅😃
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Haha! YES woman, it is. And how sweet of you to say. Just so happens, I make a mean eggnog… hmmm. Would you like a glass? 🙂
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Another big YES!!! 🤗
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Most of us are doing OK in our sweet and precious homes, even though we long for a return to normalcy and hugs and flying to visit loved ones. Happy Holy-days to you, dear friend!
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To the holy in every day moments, Kathy. May we also find the joy in living every day❣️
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Thanks for the Christmas cheer Pam. I hadn’t heard of Fauci on the couchie, but I love it! To hope and health for the new year. Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅
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Fortunately I haven’t spent a lot of time on the couch during this pandemic as I know you have not either. Writing in our writing chair and walking while forest bathing and photographing nature – now that’s what has kept us sane! 🙏😍
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Exactly. Thanks my friend. 🎄
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Happy Holidays
Regards, Bob Licht
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Thanks, as always, being such great friends and for reading my blog every week! 🙏🎄⛄️
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I couldn’t agree more. Hugging loved ones and air travel are the two things I’m looking forward to most in 2021. Both are sensory experiences you and I (and others) have been deprived of this year.
Our governor dispenses the vaccine to nursing homes today – Yay! Hope on the horizon, I say!
Thanks for the post and for the creativity behind it. I’m certainly blessed to connect with you here, Pam!
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Blessings go both ways my friend. To sharing and connecting and – who knows?- traveling to each other’s neck of the woods (or palm trees 🌴 ). 😘
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That puzzle looks like fun. Wonderful Acrostic “poem,” Pam. Such well-expressed thoughts that many of us feel at this time. Had to chuckle over Dr. Fauci on the couchie.
All the best for a happy and peaceful, and especially healthy Christmas.
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Thank YOU for the thought of creating a holiday acrostic, Anneli. You inspire in many ways. Here’s to collaborating in 2021! 🙏 🖊
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Sounds great to me, Pam. What’s your next good idea? Can’t wait to try it.
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There’s something wonderful about seeing the tail end of 2020. The new year feels so much more light and hopeful. A few more patient months and it will be time to hug, eat out, travel, and celebrate with family and friends face to face. ❤ ❤ Happy Holidays to you too, my friend.
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I can’t wait! But wait we must for a while longer. In the meantime… eat Christmas cookies! 🤔😆
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Ha. Yes, we must patiently eat Christmas cookies. 🙂
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Happy Holidays to you as well, Pamela. 😁
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🎄❄️🎅
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This brought a smile! Enjoy your holiday, however you celebrate.
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And merry merry to you! Smile and we’ll see brighter days ahead. ❤️😁
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As usual, Pam, you’ve summed up our lives perfectly in this fun and accurate Holiday Puzzler!!!! Somehow this Christmas has become more meaningful!!!
❤️🎄⛄️🎅💚
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We appreciate the little things, like home and home-cooking, more now, realizing they’re the big things!
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This made me smile, Pamela:) Happy Holidays!
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Smiles are what we need this Season! Thanks for spreading them around. 🥰
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Here’s to hugging people in 2021. I have missed that more than anything. Very best wishes to you and your family Pam.
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Hugs to you Sue, even though virtual it comes with much thanks for visiting my blog often and your wonderful comments! Thought of you Thursday when we got a foot of snow. Just “a little snow shower” to you! ❄️ ⛄️
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Beautifully done. WP!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU AND YOURS!
Make that: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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We’ll make it merry and bright, as Warriors do! 🎅🎄❤️
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Happy Holidays Pam. Looking forward to leaving the monsters behind as we step into 2021. Cheers to new beginnings.
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Here’s to defeating the monsters and to blue skies ahead, Balroop. 🙏💖
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Happy Holidays to you and yours as well!! It’s tough to have to stay at home all the time but at least we have a home is my mantra these days. Sending hugs and love. xo
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Good mantra indeed, Darlene. To home and hearth… and hope for 2021. Xo
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Happy Christmas – let’s hope 2021 is a better year!
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🙏 Yes!
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This is a lovely post, Pam. Wishing you a happy holiday and all the best for the coming year.
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And I wish you peace and health and love in 2021. 🙏❤️
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We haven’t had a tree for a long time, but I’ve seen some funny 2020-themed ornaments that have made me want to have something to hang them on. I love your Dr. Fauci ornament… who knew that someone so modest and unassuming could be such a force of nature?
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The unassuming and modest ones are the silent geniuses that I most admire! 🥰 My favorite ornament now!
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What an inspiring poem! Perfect gift to your readers for the holidays!
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Thank you- that was exactly my intention. 🎁 💝
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Love it! 🎄 Happy Holidays, Pam! 💞
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Very creative. And fun. And cute. And… timely, Pam! 🙂 Happy Holidays to you both as well.
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Liesbet – I’m re-reading Plunge for my early morning read-with-tea, and enjoying it just as much as the first time. I hope there will be a second installment of your memoir in your future. 🙂 xo
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That’s great, Pam! I’m honored Plunge is worth a second read! 🙂
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It was a good day to start but this just made it grand. I love learning something new. I loved how you did this. The ornament is a great memento of a tough time.
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Hi Marlene. Hope you are well, and that your sister is healing! To a safe time in the near future for traveling and visits — in the meantime, enjoy the peace of this holiday season. ❤
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Sis is healing by leaps and bounds. An extremely isolated holiday for her but she has her caregiver with her so all is well. If this ever ends, I want to start traveling the world! Have a Very Merry Christmas, Pam.
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To the WORLD! And to your Sis. xo
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There’s a 1000-piece puzzle one quarter done on my dining-room table, Pam. Great minds! Have a wonderful holiday, whatever way you spend it. ❤
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That’s so neat Jennifer. I wonder what it is a picture of? We only have five pieces left now – which seem to be missing. I’ve decided to call this puzzle “five-easy-pieces” puzzle. 😂 Thes five pieces that are missing are the easiest. The rest of them – phew!
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So unfair to sell puzzles with a piece or pieces missing. It happened to me as well as my sister. This one is of a tiger sanctuary. Time will tell if it’s intact!😁
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Well, that sounds challenging – getting all of those tigers’ stripes in line! We found ONE of the pieces, so down to four missing. That isn’t bad odds out of a 1,000 piece puzzle, right? 🙂
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It is challenging! But that’s what I want. 😁 It isn’t bad odds when you look at it that way, Pam. #positivity
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Well spelled!
Here’s hoping that 2021 is all we ever could ask of a year!
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I like the way you hope Nancy. I will join you! ❤️🙏
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Happy Holidays to you too. Huge hugs from Downunder. 🙂
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I’M down under… A foot of snow! 😱🤗🥶❄️
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lmao! I hope you have some place warm to shelter in then! And a hot toddy perhaps?
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Or two??? 🙂
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Oh, let’s not be stingy…make it three. 😀
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Even better. 🙂
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Chin chin!
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Or perhaps chin chin; chin chin; chin chin! 🙂
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LMAO – ka ching! Well played…and yes. 😀
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Changing the colours is relaxing for my eyes. A fun effect, Pam. And, I immediately get it on the “Happy Holiday.”
You remind me how I read a recent news article on the paradox off social distancing when we need hugs the most. I love your ornament. It makes me smile today and when I saw it on Instagram. 🙂 We have had a few recent challenges, part of them I will share in my next post. Therefore, delayed in reading my favourite blogs. ❤️ Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones.
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You mentioned in an earlier post that you like the way I change colors (usually of paragraphs) in my posts, so I keep doing it. It really worked here so readers could “get” that this was an acrostic poem. I’m glad you saw what I was doing. I look forward to reading more about what’s going on with you and your family. I send you a HUGE hug, even if it has to be virtual. To Christmas Future… ❤
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I incorporated a little of the changing colours this time, inspired by you, Pam. It is fun to play and stay creative.❤️
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I’ll hop over!! Ah, I’m back. Yes, great blue headlines in a headline-worthy post! 🙂
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I like the line about suddenly admitting we are doing okay – with the puzzles and Zooms and staying at home. Well put, Pam. Happy Holidays!
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Thanks, Barbara. YES, we all should realize how fortunate we are that most of us are “okay,” even if okay is relative to what’s going on in the entire world. Life is puzzling, and I suppose we spend most of our time trying to find the right pieces to fit in … (how’s that for metaphor). 🙂 Merry Christmas. xo
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That’s a fantastic metaphor!
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Lovely poem and post, Pam, and love that ornament. Your header is also gorgeous! Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and let’s clink our glasses to a brighter new year. ✨🥂💝
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Thanks for noticing my header photo, Lauren. The view outside my kitchen window after our latest snow storm! Clinking glasses with you virtually – maybe in person sometime in the future. Cheers!!
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I just knew it was a view from your window. 🙂 Gorgeous! Cheers to clinking glasses and ringing in the new year with hope on the wings! 💗🥂🌟
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I’m dusting my wings off!! 🙂
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Happiest of holidays to you, Pam. With the vaccine out, I feel like we’re close to ending this!
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I’m so hopeful for this vaccine, Jacqui. A miracle of science, indeed. To the new year!! xo
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Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones, Pam. May your Christmas be filled with cheer and optimism for the year ahead. ❤
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Optimism in underrated. I believe in positivity, and obviously so do the wonderful scientists and vaccine researchers who will help our 2021 be a happy one. Merry Christmas, Carol!
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Very creative and so clever, Pam. Happy holidays to you as well! 🎄🎅❄
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Thanks to the CREATIVITY and CLEVERNESS of scientists and researchers, we will soon have a vaccine cure in 2021. Merry, Merry and Happy New Year to you, Debra. ❤
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Pam, thank you for your beautiful and imaginative holiday poem encompassing the year, our hopes for the near future! ‘Doing okay’ counts for a lot these days! I love your jigsaw puzzle, the birds are so vibrant and life-like, as if they want to take flight from the table! I’m smiling how just the background needs to be finished off!
Wishing you a very safe and relaxing holiday, my friend! Xx ❤️🤗
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Perhaps “doing okay” should be the mantra for 2020. For 2021, let’s make it “Doing GREAT!!” 🙂 Since I wrote the post, puzzle background is complete …except for 4 missing pieces. Sort of like this year – a number of missing pieces. ;-0 Love and Joy to you, Annika.
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Hi, Pam – Have I told you before how much I admire your writing? This post is another example of why that is!
We are all in this together — and how we respect each other now will make the biggest impact on the new year ahead.
Wishing you a warm, happy and peaceful holiday!
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THANK you, Donna. I write what I feel. Some people wear their hearts on their sleeve – I have my writing pen on my sleeve. 🙂 (Well, you know what mean). To peace and upcoming REAL hugs and always, no matter what, joy and love in our lives. ❤
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Loved this! Happy Holidays to you too, and here’s hoping for a wonderful 2021!
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Thank you, Ann. A hopeful toast to 2021. xo
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Amen girl, sounds like we have similar lives, lol. Wishing you and yours a healthy and safe holiday season so we can all soon return to the land of the living. ❤
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I’m anxious for that – and traveling to warmer climes when we can!!! xo
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Keep focusing on it! What we focus on, we bring forth. ❤
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That is amazing. Merry Christmas to you and your family❤️.
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Happy Holidays, even in this situation, have fun 👍
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Thanks for finding me here – nice to meet you from different lands, but warm and caring hearts.
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Yes I am also pleased to find you 💗
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This is lovely ❤
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Thank you. and welcome to the world of blogging!
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That tree man looks happy even though he’s just been hanged. Happy Christmas Pam.
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Haha. You always give a new perspective on things, Roy! Happy Christmas to you!!
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That is an awesome puzzle – the birds are colorful
And yes
We are all
In this together and cheers for better year ahead
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Beautiful
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Thanks for visiting here!
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Okay
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Happy Holidays to you Pam!
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Hi Andrea. Now we wait with breathless wonder — for 2021. ❤
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That says it all and right on point. Are we not grateful for Zooming these days!?
Cheers and a Happy New Year to you and yours, Pam!
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This is amazing
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Many thanks.
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You’re always welcome🙏🏻
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Well done!
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Thanks Mark. Just read your “from the airplane” story and loved it! ☺️
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Thank you!
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May your 2021 be filled with so many grand surprises that the pain of this past year will be but a dream, Pam. Happy New Year!! xo
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What a beautiful blessing!
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Love this! Wishing you all the best in 2021.
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Cute, cute. Am late to the commenting party here, but just wanted to stop by to say Happy New Year. 🎉
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NEVER too late! Happy 2021 to you. 🥳
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Lovely to connect with you on your wonderful site Pam and glad to be supporting each other as we move into the New Year! ❤️ Cindy
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Home is where the heart is and I’m so happy that we have a cozy home with lots of choices on how to stay busy…I do miss my friends and eating out and most especially my weekly visit with the boys and I hope those are not gone forever. Wishing you and yours all the best going forward Pam…and if you need any puzzles we have a mess of them here also. Jim is big on puzzles…I actually had to give him a puzzle table last year for his birthday. LOL
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My guy has become hooked – I gave him a puzzle of Kauai for Xmas. Fantasy is helpful. 😛
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