Today is Christmas and I'm already brimming over with good cheer and a little too much holiday feasting. My gifts were wonderful, but even better was the love of family and friends that mean even more.

The noise and showers of wrapping paper as the kids, large and small, opened their gifts filled my usually quiet house with the spirit of the season. My daughter-in-law's reaction to my gag gift to her, a can of diced rutabagas, was wonderful ... she actually intends to eat them!

Like so many of us, I tend to take all those precious moments of my life for granted. Today, I feel blessed to have a warm house, a dog that thinks I'm the greatest creature ever, a cat to sit on the printer and "proof" everything I read, and a refrigerator full of leftovers.

I'm about to pick up the phone and call my mother and other far-away relatives, who I'll be visiting next week for the Great Christmas Celebration: Part II. Just talking to them reminds me that the roots of our family and strong and firmly-planted, and whatever happens, we'll always have each other.

I hope your holidays, whatever you  may celebrate, are equally warm and enriching.

Cammie