Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas!

For those who didn't catch a the sneak peek of this over at Flickr (no coal in Jeff's cyber-stocking this year!) or are on our snail-mail list...

Here is the hotly anticipated much-hyped photo from our holiday greeting card this year!

Elf Rocky & Santa Toby.

We took about 20 photos... and, believe it or not, this one was the very first picture taken!  I decided  to upload some outtakes over on Flickr.  I likely should have used one of them... they are pretty amusing... but my gut told me to go with one where the kids were behaving!

One of my favorite... ok, I am going to go ahead and say it CHRISTMAS!! songs is... "Do You Hear What I Hear?"

(Tangent: I am sooo confused these days.  While I think it is only polite to wish people, particularly strangers, "happy holidays" during this time of the year...  I am experiencing backlash from the backlash over it being politically incorrect to say "Christmas" ... or is it back to being anti-"holiday" and people insisting on "Christmas"?  Soooo very confused.  How 'bout everyone -- whatever the "side" -- just unbunch their panties about the whole thing... it's so anti-holiday... errr, I mean anti-Christmas....ack!)

So yes, one of my favorites songs this time of the year is "Do You Hear What I Hear?"

Said the king to the people everywhere
Listen to what I say
Pray for peace people everywhere
Listen to what I say
The child, the child
Sleeping in the night
He will bring us goodness and light
He will bring us goodness and light

So while the blog-world takes its annual breather for the next few days, let me say that whatever you are celebrating (or not!)... it is my sincere hope that the spirit of the holiday season finds you with plenty of peace, goodness and light.

See you on the flip side (probably mid-next week)!