The Zoomlians give to you: hopes for a happy New Year!
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
More Christmas Fun in New Jersey
The biggest thing, of course, is that baby Jesus came, and He had a nice soft bed of hay in our manger. He's also wrapped in a scarf because we think he looks cold. What is it with these depictions of Jesus wearing only a diaper? Who leaves a newborn like that? It says she swaddled Him!
We had a lot of fun at Mumpy and Pa's house. Their lake was completely unfrozen - quite a surprise since it had been ice bound when we visited a few weeks before!
I remember many years when the lake was frozen enough to skate at Christmas.It wasn't always cold enough for that, so Christmas skating was always a special treat.
This year's special treat was fishing!
We didn't catch anything (the fish who bite for rod and reel fishing are asleep at the bottom of the lake, I think), but that was a fine treat for me. I love to cast, but don't like to catch and remove fish!
We also went off to play at the super playground. The stuff they have for kids these days is amazing! Back in my day, our playgrounds were definitely not this fabulous!Wow, I managed to get "kids these days" and "back in my day" in the same paragraph, the very definition of geezing!
Speaking of amazing, Mumpy gave Zorg a beard and mustache (out of whipped cream) for Christmas! I wish I had managed to get a better picture - it was a sight to behold!
And, speaking of a sight to behold, a day or two before Christmas, Oob lost his super wiggly front tooth!
Merry Christmas indeed!
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| Mumpy and Pa's Nativity Set |
Monday, December 29, 2014
Merry Christmas in New Jersey
We had a wonderful time visiting Mumpy and Pa in New Jersey over Christmas!We drove up Christmas Eve, and came back Saturday night, just in time for a Christmas celebration with Grammy and Pop and the other side of the family on Sunday.
One fringe benefit of spending Christmas with Mumpy and Pa is that they're also Catholic, so we get to go to Mass together. What a treasure!
Two strangers in beard hats showed up. We don't know who they were, but they were awfully cute!We had fun unwrapping presents, of course!
We often shake the gift and guess what it could be.
Pa always guesses it might be a bomb (he's been a bomb disposal guy for nearly 60 years). He also guesses it might be an angry ferret, but I don't think he's worked with them as long.
Well, what do you know? He had to be right eventually!On the Fifth Day of Christmas
The Zoomlians bring to you... Star Wars! In Christmas lights!! Because we're silly!
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Saturday, December 27, 2014
On the Third Day of Christmas...
Zoom Times gives to you, this singularly simple, but beautiful rendition of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen!"
Friday, December 26, 2014
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas from Zoom!
May your Christmas be filled with
the Joy and Peace of Christ!
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Poem of the Week
UNFOLD thy face, unmaske thy ray,
Shine forth, bright Sunne, double the day.
Let no malignant misty fume,
Nor foggy vapour, once presume
To interpose thy perfect sight
This day, which makes us love thy light
For ever better, that we could
That blessèd object once behold,
Which is both the circumference,
And center of all excellence:
Or rather neither, but a treasure
Unconfinèd without measure,
Whose center and circumference,
Including all preheminence,
Excluding nothing but defect,
And infinite in each respect,
Is equally both here and there,
And now and then and every where,
And alwaies, one, himselfe, the same,
A beeing farre above a name.
Draw neer then, and freely poure
Forth all thy light into that houre,
Which was crownèd with his birth,
And made heaven envy earth.
Let not his birth-day clouded be,
By whom thou shinest, and we see.
By: Christopher Harvey (1597–1663)
HT: The Journey With Jesus
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