Hi I just wanted to wish you all a Happy Holiday Season whatever your faith or belief. I have completely enjoyed this past year getting to know so many people from all over the world and now you have become part of my extended family.
I am so very thankful this season for ‘all that I have, for my family that is so wonderful, my bigger family of all of you and for having a truly wonderful life’.
We had our family Christmas gathering last night and had a wonderful time, lots of laughter, lots of love and lots of sharing our joy. We drew names this year for the adults and my gift was a beautiful set of dishes, with pretty little flowers that will look lovely in my new home. I was surprised at the end of the gift giving with my whole family presenting me with a group gift and much to my delight it was a digital camera something I have been wanting for a long time but never expected to get as a gift.
As soon as I am able to master the uploading of pics I will be posting some.
Happy Holiday wishes again for all the many folks I have come to know, admire and love on this site, you all have added so much to my year of 2005.
Please use this diary to express your seasonal good wishes or thoughts.
Let me add to Diane’s good wishes for all
MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY HANUKKAH! JOYOUS KWANZA! BLESSED SOLSTICE! AND WONDERFUL HAPPY WHATEVER YOU MAY CELEBRATE IN WHATEVER WAY YOU CELEBRATE IT!
All of you in my Boo Froggy Family have made this the most amazing and fabulous year of my life! Thank you all for all that you have blessed me with and for the privilege of counting you as part of my family.
Have a wonderful season of Love and Joy and on to the Best New Year Ever!!
Big snowy Hugs and loves
Shirl
All that she said and More.
To my dear friend Shirl may I say thanks for coming into my life this year, finally…
what a pleasure it has been to call you friend and now Godess Mother to my children. Indeed the year of 2005 has been a wonderful year for me personally and you contributed to that emmensely.
Well, you caught me SPEECHLESS. . .
Thank you and you know it is the same for me, finally!
An amazing year this 2005 has been. And you know the whole story of it so you know how absolutely grateful I am for all that it has brought me. Most especially a friend like you.
. . .And I didn’t miss the more reference either, Ms Diane. . .Very clever, very clever.
Should you all want to know more about MORE you can go take a look right here Sometimes I wonder
A very merry merry.
And a hoppy hoppy New Year to the Frog Lot.
Be of good cheer!
A very merry to you, too.
Best wishes for the new year and glad to have met you in 2005.
May the Cheer be good to you too!
Merry Christmas to all here….
Thank you to Diane and Shirl for being here in the very beginning and making us all so welcome.
This is a wonderful place to be…
Wishing peace on earth to each and everyone
Wishing peace on earth as well, may we have it this coming year, it’s about time, eh….
Special Greeting to you Ms. Cat, who I recall from her pre diary days and so glad you came out of the diary closet this year…
Hugs and lots a love to you.
. . .and let it begin with me.
Merry Christmas! So glad to hear of your wonderful family get-together (not to mention the delightful surprise – what a nice way to wrap up your year)!
I feel blessed and humbled to be in the company of such uniquely talented folks. And I’d like to thank everyone for their infinite contributions and kindnesses. I’ve learned a great deal over the past months, and I have each of you to thank for the education.
Blessings to all, (and to Diane, a Good Night!) Thanks for another thoughtful diary, my dear. :^)
Merry Christmas dear Anom, special greeting to you my friend through the thick and thin of this past year and a very special part of this very special place.
And to you a goodnight as well.
Thanks so much for all that you personally have added to me and my life.
All blessings to you in the New Year.
Special greetings to Booman and Susan, two of my favorite people. May the gods of writing be with you in this coming year as they have been in the past and may all good things come into your lives as you so richly deserve.
Booman and Susan especially derserve an extra hug, more nog in their egg, unending words flowing from their muse, and all things Bright and Beautiful! Have the very best of everything through the holidays and kick their butts in the new year!!
and Susan, and Shirl, and Diane. Start naming everybody and it turns into a huge brood.
A Christmas card we can all sign! Best wishes for the coming year in your new digs, Diane, and that would be in both the virtual and “real” world.
Happy Holidays to all,
Love,
kansas
Exactly, a ‘Christmas Card we can all sign’, I wish I would have thought of that…but you did and that’s great…
Happy Holidays to you dear Kansas, one of the powerhouses of the cafe, methinks, you are splendid at hosting my friend as are the other hosters, temporary and constant.
Have the best of it all Kansas! Thanks for all the support you’ve given and wonderful things you have added to the Frog Pond!
Thanks and love to you both. I feel as if I’ve been at the Frog Pond forever, and that I’ve made friends I don’t ever want to lose.
Have a wonderful holiday Kansas….
I mentioned your writings to Mr. Cat tonight and he loves your work! A fan club in our house…so we’ll be stocking up on your books in the New Year.
Bright Blessings for the Holidays!
A purrfect holiday (and many blushing thanks) to you and Mr. Cat!
Diane, it is an honor and a privilege to know you and to be a part of this community of friends.
May the New Year bring you Peace and Joy.
I told Chocolate Ink that I would find this Algonquian Indian Incantation for her for Christmas and this looks like a perfect place for it.
Peace and Blessings
It’s been a while since I studied up on that sort of thing.
Excellent picture. 🙂
I still got it…in a cosmological sense. 🙂
Perfect, Dada, thanks so much for posting that here…it’s my honor to know you too Dada and so glad you are a part of this community of friends.
Wow! Someone is playing my song! Thanks so much dada.
And a wonderful holiday and New Year to you!!!
Beautiful picture and words so I say to you dada and to all of you, Mitakuye Oyasin.
I only wish we and everyone who mouths the words peace on earth could truly carry forth that ideal and make it happen. Can’t we start a Peace Revolution?
loved hearing about your new set of dinnerware and you might get tired of me thanking you for the gift you gave me of the rubbing from the Wall but that is a gift you gave to me that I will and do treasure. Carry on having a great day that I hope continues into the coming New Year.
Best wishes in your new home Diane. May all you dreams for the new year come true.
Thank you, and all the best to you and yours (and a great big hug to all but a special one for baby Andrew,) for the coming year. 2005 was a pretty spectacular year for you, wasn’t it? May all your dreams come true, also.
Things certainly seem to be looking up this year- TY all so much for being who you are- and you know who you are!:)
Best wishes to you Shycat, TY for being you, …
Yes things do seem to be looking up for this year and the next looks very bright indeed, I think we are coming out of the dark ages, at last….
Holiday greetings and good luck in your new home, Diane! Glad to see your post here! We’re all looking forward to the many photos you will no doubt be posting. 😉
Happy Holidays to all from the Netherlands! Since my youngsters are binational they get the Dutch Sinterklass on december 5th AND Christmas today. Lucky little girls. Here’s Sinterklass in our house a couple of weeks ago (thumbnail pops in new window). He’s a Spanish saint who bags the kids if they are bad and brings them back to Madrid and comes to Holland on a ship. Sounds a wee bit familiar? Enjoy the day! RK
Happy Holidays to you and all the Netherlanders, so glad we could meet up here on Bootrib.
Happy Holidays to you too Diane, and to all here as well! To all!
Merry, Happy Christmaskwanzakuh! And a joyful day to you atheists, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, Hindus etc etc etc too. Whatever you choose to hang on to to get through daily life, may it bring you peace and contentment.
See you in the New Year and may it be your best year ever!
Seeing your name here made my Christmas morning all the better Catnip. Yahoooooooo and that’s not for the search engine.
See you in the New Year also and of course hoping it’s the best ever for all.
Best wishes to you Cat.
P.S.: Where’s the cheesecake??
we got cheesecake!
And a happy whatever kind of day you want it to be to you!
Wow. I want to concentrate on how happy I feel at seeing catnip here, but my traitorous attention keeps returning to that cheesecake. That is the most amazing piece of cheesecake I think I have ever seen. I think catnip, especially catnip, will forgive me if it distracts me from saying howdy to her.
A Very Happy Merry Everything to all of you here at the FrogPond og Peace and Hope. A special wish to you dear Diane for alaways bringing tranquility here. You are a true inspiration for me to be a better human being.
May your new home always be filled with the love and warmth of family and friends. You deserve only the best. Have fun with your new camera.
The kids got me Tivo because I always seem to fall asleep right before my favorite shows and gripe about missing them.
May the “Force” be with us in 2006 so we can take our country back, one seat at a time!
A Happy and Merry everything to you Aloha, lucky you with the Tivo..
I love my camera, but guess what, I am having trouble loading the software for uploading and spent hours yesterday, trying to figure out the problem.
Ironically, it was loaded on my computer when I started, actually uploaded the pics. but program said photos were moved to another location, so I uninstalled and reinstalled and it has not worked since. sooooo, very frustrating.
Anyone have any hints for Kodak Easy Share software?
Aloha, I hope that we will get to meet in person in 2006, and you know Shirl is coming in the spring so maybe then we can get together.
Best wishes to you..
Hi Diane! Just got home from a very long day with the kids! Pooped! Sorry I cannot help with your problem. I have troubles all the time.
YES! I am really looking forward to getting together soon and would also love to meet Shirls. Maybe we could try to get as many Frosters that can to meet up in the spring here in SoCal? THAT would be wonderful!
Oh, good heavens, how shall I ever begin to express my feelings to each of you here for the honest to goodness love and friendship I have for each of you, that share this space with me. I will never be able to express this to you in words. Just know that my heart is so happy to have you all in it.
Just thank you for being here for me and giving to me the love and the experience of knowing that you are always here for me.
A very Merry Christmas and Wonderful Holidays to all. HUGSSSSS
Merry Christmas to you Brenda a sparkling addition to these pages and this site. I am pretty sure that all of us on this site love it that you are here.
Last year at Christmas I never dreamed about Booman Trib. and all the lovely folks I would meet and consider to be my friends. Who would have thought????
Best wishes for the new year, BS….
I would also like to send out a big Merry Christmas and hopes that ‘all is well’ to my Iraqi Friend Diva, (who is a Christian in case you were wondering)who I have not heard from since October.
I hope you will all join me in sending out your caring thoughts and love to her.
Supersoling, Mattman (where ever he is right now..I miss him), Cat, Teacher Toni, Boston Joe, Manny, Brother Feldspar, Damnit Janet and Damnit Ryan, Boran 2, Catnip!!, AndiF, Alohaleezy, Janet Strange, Limelite, Oui, ghandi, Diva in Iraq, Mike in Iraq and any other Mike who is in Iraq, Jerome in Iraq (wish you were back here fighting with my husband about everything everyday instead of “fighting” over there) and any other Jerome in Iraq, and Larry in Iraq and any other Larry in Iraq, and the other 50 Boomaners at least that I’m forgetting here.
and Merry Christmas to you Tracy and to all the servicemen in Iraq by any name and all the citizens there and in the whole world.
What a year it has been Tracy, glad I could walk through it with you and all the other fabulous people here.
Finally had my son upload my pics to his computer and email to me so at last I can post, this first one is me right after receiving my camera. Just minutes before I was all exhuberant, but calmed for the pic. (I look like such a little old lady and I am only 39…lol)
This is my daughter Shanna 30 who is having a baby next Aug.
On the left is daughter Jessica 23 and right is my grandaughter Michelle, 13.
This is my son Jon 25, and his girlfriend Rachel.
Hey there, Diane! Thank you for sharing these wonderful images & for posting a truly beautiful diary.
I extend warmest holiday wishes to you & to everyone here at the pond.
May each of us experience peace, joy & overwhelming love in the coming year.
May we meet our personal & collective battles with strength, wisdom & serenity.
Blessings to one & all.