<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Nancy - you and George look fabulous. So glad that things are evening out for you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">And your granddaughter is beautiful!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">My son's family celebrates Hanukkah and Christmas. Lucky grandkids … grandma and</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">gramps were at their house to celebrate Hanukkah, and now Nana and PopPop (me and</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Doug) will be there to celebrate Christmas. Wonder what it all means in the eyes of a 3</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">year old … probably not much except FUN!! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Happy holidays to you all!! Wishing everyone a healthy happy and peaceful New Year.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">💜 Debbie<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 1:37 AM <<a href="mailto:oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com">oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div><span><p class="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium">Holiday greetings to you all.</p><p class="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium"> </p><p class="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium">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="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium"> </p><p class="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium">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="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium"> </p><p class="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium">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="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium"> </p><p class="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium">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="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium"> </p><p class="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium">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="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydp35193b4fMsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:medium"> </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="gmail-m_-5814819040788730732ydpe399640byahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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