MaggieMoose-ish Christmas Past

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time."

Laura Ingalls Wilder

MaggieMoose Christmas 2011

  Maggie is getting very excited with the new Moose gifts pouring in. She sniffs and sniffs and sniffs them all. We have stuffed moose toys, moose ornaments and more. So MaggieMoose-ish! It takes me back to Christmas past. Looking at Maggie's 2011 photo at Christmas time with her elk antler makes me reminisce. I remember about her human siblings' Christmas past. I still have a photo of the twin girls taken with Santa in a key fob. When my daughter Christy saw Santa at different places she would tell me "That's not the real Santa, the real Santa lives at Stanford Shopping Center". I had to agree with her, the real Santa did use to live there before his big Christmas eve night. I saw the proof, his beard was real when she tugged on it while sitting in his lap. It seems like yesterday our book shelves were filled with Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books....

As we reflect on those childhood memories Santa comes alive in our hearts. Maggie's friskiness during her first Christmas was great fun. I remember her being perplexed when the ornaments looked like her tennis balls. I could see the dilemma in her puppy mind playing out do I dare play with these? When she walked by the tree she was always doing a double-take looking at those Christmas ornaments. Hysterical. It's fun to become a child again at Christmas time. Maggie and I know where the real Santa lives.

Wrapped Around The Christmas Tree

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other."

Burton Hillis

Christmas past

  Our Christmas tree is up. Maggie and I are ready for the holiday visitors that will start arriving in the month of December. Before this Christmas happens we pay homage to those from previous Christmas seasons. When we brought down the Christmas decorations we found a couple of photos in the pocket of one of my daughter's old swim team parkas. In the two photos were our dog Scotty (Maltese) and a photo of one of Maggie's human siblings at Middle School age. She had our dog Scotty in her arms. Scotty has long since passed and is running up in Heaven with his buddy Annie (our Yorkie). It brought back memories of Christmas past. We say thanks to Christmas' past like in Bob Hope's famous song Thanks For The Memory. This year is Maggie's 2nd Christmas. She's more grown up this year, but her youthful sparkle is still ignited. Over our Thanksgiving holiday we had visitors. Maggie was thrilled. It meant more people to play with her or for her to play with them. Also on her mind were the food goodies perhaps accidentally dropped beneath the dining room table. Maggie is like a four pawed vacuum. Thanks Maggie! Over the holiday Maggie watched the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, football and more football.

The biggest treat for Maggie was our sleepy little visitor that came to play. I do believe Maggie thought she was just for Maggie-her own personal fun buddy. That's a whole other story about their playful adventures together. Mostly, it was fun having our little toddler in front of the tree next to Maggie's cozy bed. Maggie attentively followed her around and provided her with lots of giggle material. 

After all the excitement of laughter and joy the Thanksgiving holiday brought us, it was over. It was then back to the quiet zone of just zany Maggie providing the laughter. Maggie missed her toddler play pal. She searched the house looking for the little munchkin sniffing here and there wondering where she went. Maggie and I think it was very nice having our happy family wrapped around our Christmas tree. It was the best gift before Christmas.

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