She carefully views the Christmas treelooking for where the ornament might go best.
She holds it to her when someone offers to take it for her,
'No' the one word she knew the best is spoken quietly but forcefully.
She finds the perfect spot and after trying her hand at putting it up quickly
hands it to someone pointing to the right spot...

"There," He said, "That is exactly where I want her to be."

But still we think of where we could have been, what we could have been, how we could have looked.

"No," He says, "This is where I want you. This is what your supposed to be, this is how you are supposed to look. And I love you."

57. Where I am
58. Who I am
59. How I look
So now the rest of the list...
60. Cough drops offering temporary relief
61. Coats
62. Cameras
63. Croaked Teeth Smiles
64. Hand-Me-Down Feather Pillows
65. Sheet Music
66. Journals from Grandpa's during their war experiences
67. '...All Being Equal...'
68. Literature classes
68. Stockings!
69. Being able to put Papa's stocking up!
70. Having Papa still with us (One year ago yesterday!)
71. Mannheim Steamroller
72. Christmas Traditions
73. Samplers
74. Garlands that need constant attention to keep in line
75. Charlie Brown Christmas Trees
76. Our Government
77. Our 'Private Library'
78. Recipes
79. Tasha Tudors Drawings
80. Half Filled Notebooks with stories that may never get finished
81. World Books
82. Sense and Sensebility Music
83. Emma Music
83. Little Women Music
84. Lisa's Music
85. Orla's music
86. Meav's Music
86. Journals
87. Old Pictures

Gifts

17. The view of the sun rising out our window when I wake up.
18. Pride and Prejudice (The 6 hour version!)
19. Having mercy for not completing this on time!
20. The Passion of Christ
21. The love of the Father
22. The 'fights' that happen when one of us wants to answer the phone so we can talk to a brother or a sister
23. Maddie's goofy laugh when she's been tickled for too long
24. My older brothers calling Caleb up into manhood (with a minor threat that if he doesn't listen then they will all take him outside and tackle him)
25. Our large library
26. Papa's laugh when he reads ahead in Mitford and sees something funny
27. Bodie and Brock Thoene books
28. Hymns
29. My friends (too numerous to name!)
30. My Sisters Blog (so much fun to read!)
31. My Friends Blog
32. My Grandma's greetings too each other ('Good afternoon, Gail!' 'Good afternoon, Virginia!')
33. My nieces and nephews calling Grandpa 'Papa' and Grandma 'Nana'
34. The first day that I figured out how easy it was to spell Papa (Oh my goodness! it's only two letters spelled twice!)
35. Remembering dancing on Papa's feet
36. Turning on Enya, when we were younger, and dancing to Fairytale like my older sister- but much clumsier!
37. Papa playing the Violin
38. Mama's homemade meals every evening
39. Performing 'A Christmas Carol' and trying to keep a straight face even though Scrooge is doing the silliest things without knowing it!
40. Having the name Kircher meaning 'Man of the Church'
41. Adventures in Odyssey
42.Visiting Midvale
43. Books
44. Music
45. Papa and Mama playing the Violin together
46. Family worship nights
47. The way my nephews think faster then they can speak
48. Celtic music
49. Walks around a river
50. Mountains
51. A hot cup of cocoa and a good book on a cold day
52. Evelyn Faith and Elianna Pearl (My Nieces)
53. Corban Mark, Micah Nathaniel, Wyatt Scott, and Ethan Nicholas (My Nephews)
54. Dean Martin music.
55. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Movies
56. Micah and Corban (my nephews) imitations on anything and everything possible.

Thanks

Alright - I am finally starting to do my list. I apologize to all of you for how long it's taken me to actually sit down and do it. So here it is. My thanks...

1. Delicious meals that are brought by loving friends.

2. Beautiful decorations around the whole entire house.

3. Hearing Papa walking around upstairs.

4. Watching Papa and Mom laugh so hard at simply quoting Tim Conway and Harvey Korman.

5. Looking at ornaments and remembering silly storyies that occured when we bought them or when we hung them.

6. The way the light shines through the nativity on our breakfront.

7. To sit with my family and watch Christmas movies.

8. The looks on Mary and Joseph's faces as they look at their newborn child.

9. Beautifully illustrated Christmas books.

10. All my family.

11. Eating oranges, apple slices, crackers, cheese balls, popcorn, and drinking eggnog on Sunday nights.

12. Cold winter days.

13. Walks with Papa on cold afternoons.

14. Chistmas music.

15. Books that are not possible to put down until they're over.

16. Papa crying when he thinks about the miraculous fact that he is still alive.

So I will end my thank you list, even though the list will never end!