<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">We wish all very Happy Holidays and a very Merry Christmas!! We have s blended family religiously and love celebrating all.<div>We will be in Florida with our three youngest and their families-6 between 6 months and 5 years. It should be wild. Our oldest is going to Costa Rica with her three teenagers. </div><div>The Holiday Season is one full of magic! May each of you be touched by it!</div><div>Love,</div><div>Debbie <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Dec 19, 2018, at 1:35 AM, <a href="mailto:oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com">oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com</a> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span><p class="ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Holiday greetings to you all.</p><p class="ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">It’s now over a year since our house burned in the October, 2017 northern California wildfires. I recall writing to you all then about our situation and how I was feeling at the time – devastated and overwhelmed. I now realize how unbalanced and fragile I was. Things for my husband and me have much improved since then.</p><p class="ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We are quite settled in our new house. It is now furnished very comfortably, although without many decorative touches. Everything is new. New is lovely and unworn. On the other hand, new has no roots or memories attached. So new has some down sides, but as time goes on new will grow its own roots and make its own memories. All in all, we are in extremely good shape and extremely fortunate. I shudder, however, each time there is another destructive wildfire in our state.</p><p class="ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We received a good injection of “normal” when we returned to Massachusetts for a few weeks this summer and then again in the fall. My husband and I now own a summer home near Plymouth that my grandfather built in 1920. In the last few years I had questioned why I kept the place because it is so far from where we live and we use it for only part of the summer. Returning there this July, however, nourished my soul. In the comfort of familiarity I was able to reconnect with myself. I will be keeping the house.</p><p class="ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In October we attended the wedding of my son-in-law’s sister. I’ve included 2 photos from the wedding. One shows off my youngest grandchild, Lina, dressed for the Indian wedding; the other is of George and me in our (new) party clothes. </p><p class="ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Our 2 children and 5 grandchildren (aged 11 to 3-3/4) are doing well. We will be seeing them all over Christmas. What could be better? </p><p class="ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div><font size="3">Wishing all of you the best for the holidays and the New Year.</font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="3">Love,</font></div><div><font size="3">Nancy</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span><div class="ydpe399640byahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><fullsizeoutput_24c.jpeg></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><fullsizeoutput_26e.jpeg></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>oxford63 mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com">oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://mailman.cybermesa.com/mailman/listinfo/oxford63">http://mailman.cybermesa.com/mailman/listinfo/oxford63</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>