Early

Jewel Sassafras and I celebrated Christmas today and it was a great day!

We went to her favorite place, OUTSIDE, twice; sniffing the air, visiting with a neighbor, sitting in the sun, smacking the vines on the fence and smacking mommy's face when her warm and cozy blanket slid off her butt.

She got plenty of pets and kisses throughout the day and she ate lots and lots of kitty treats – more food than she's eaten in one day in a while.

She even voluntarily hopped up on the love seat several times and sat with mommy, as seen in today's image.

So why did we celebrate our 16th Christmas together early?  Well, my sweet baby girl is coming to the end of her struggle with pancreatic cancer.  Tomorrow afternoon we say our goodbyes.  But today, TODAY we celebrated Christmas.

I love you, baby girl.

31 days of Christmas.

Heavenly

31 days of Christmas.

Cheery

Got this handsome little guy from my Secret Santa at work.  31 days of Christmas.

Cautiously

This little one is always knocking stuff off my desk or tipping over the trash can.  And yet, when I give her some fun stuff to play with, she just stares at it cautiously.  Maybe it's because one of the ornaments rolled toward her and made her jump.  31 days of Christmas.

Excitedly

Here is another Christmas moment from my childhood.  31 days of Christmas.

I've been looking at old negatives lately, in addition to old prints. I left the edge on this one just because I felt like it.  Kodak Safety Film was pretty nice.  It makes me want to cry when I see these beautiful 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 negatives from my early childhood, and then my mom decided to buy a 110 camera to replace it.