Before and after: Poppy seed bread

I run across a lot of food bloggers out there. If I stuck strictly to food, I think it would be all about bread because it is so much fun to make.

Christmas pix

Everyone loves Uncle Bub.
The budding photographer?

What adorable cousins!

As the Prophet Isaiah Foretold

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace, there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this."

Christmas Eve

It doesn't matter where I am, what I am doing, or whom I am with, Christmas Eve retains its magic. It is the most special of times. The child in me can still feel the charge of anticipation in the air and see the atmospheric glow from Santa's sleigh.

Merry Christmas!