“The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his/her own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding and gives him/her a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.”

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding “Of Miracles” (1748, edited to remove the sexist use of pronouns)

With the exception of the first picture, some of the above are so funny – they’re logos from another blog: gracenotes over at livejournal.com. I especially love the “f you.” No, the sentiment isn’t exactly sweetness and light, but it cracks me up.

Well, Christmas was lovely. I am sort of kind of taking the day off today, since we had no shelter hearings today and there is really no reason to go into the office.

Dori took amazing photos of the grandbabies and framed them. We now have four lovely professionally done photos of our two granddaughters. Where to hang the pics? Decisions, decisions, but we think in the playroom-which-was-supposed-to-be-a-dining-room area makes sense. A preview of one of the photos is at the top of this entry.

Three of my kids got me a portable GPS system which will come in VERY handy while doing client visits. And yes, it talks to me. How disturbing…. Two of my other kids got me really interesting books, one of which provided the quote you see here today at the top of this post. John got me some cool gifts, one of which was a “regifting” from a customer at the Center Club, unlike John, a fellow Democrat. It is a keychain that gives you the countdown for Bush’s time in office. Kind of like the one you see on the sidebar of this blog, LOL. Also a DVD called “WordPlay” with an accompanying workbook about crossword puzzles. I am in hog heaven:). That and the cool corkscrew set really shows John’s got my number, LOL:)

John got the usual cologne and a few goodies from Restoration Hardware from me. The kids got him a photo printer. He’s not one to view things online – wants to frame and hang up his photos like a normal person:)

The grandchildren were overwhelmed by the time they had to get to their daddy’s house, but this morning, they briefly stopped by for a visit to collect a lot of their “stuff” and they seemed a lot better rested.

As was Grandma. I’ve started to finish that huge sweater for my son, Danny – it could fit him and his wife together, but he wants it anyway. Hmmmm…. they are newlyweds. Not going there, LOL

Well, Nigella Feasts is running for the 110th time on the DVR thingie, so I better get going. And I may just take another look at the Knitty Gritty episode on steaking.

Hope you all are enjoying your holiday:)

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