I opened my closet last weekend and pulled out my Christmas box! What’s in it? Christmas CDs and DVDs to enjoy for the holidays! Here are the selections in my Christmas box!

1. A Charlie Brown Christmas CD and DVD – this thing has been on TV for as long as I can remember! What a heartwarming story that’s still a hit today!

Original Christmas Classics DVD set which includes:

2. Frosty The Snowman DVD
3. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town DVD
4. Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer DVD
I can remember seeing all three of these shows on TV every year since I was a kid!

5. The Polar Express DVD – this selection is what I consider “new”. My hubby and I went to see this in the theater and this was before we had a child.

6. The Vanessa Williams Christmas Collection CD – I mostly listen to this while traveling in the car!

7. Jackson 5 Christmas Album – My four-year-old son LOVES listening to this! He especially enjoys Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer!

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The Nutcracker CD – my husband doesn’t care for this, but I love the music! If I play it in the car, it’s usually when I’m alone!

Do you have a Christmas box or Christmas music and DVDs that you enjoy every year? If you do, what are your selections? I’d love to know!

~Cecelia Dowdy~

Happy Thanksgiving!

I doubt I’ll be posting over the next few days, but I just wanted to be sure to wish all of you scribes and Christian fiction readers a very Happy Thanksgiving!

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Leave a comment and let me know how you celebrated your holiday. What did you have to eat? Who did you visit? Did you have to cook a big meal? If you did, what was on the menu? My curious mind wants to know! 🙂

~Cecelia Dowdy~

It’s kind of overcast right now, so I’m not sure we’ll be going out to Greenbelt’s Annual Labor Day Festival. We attended yesterday because my husband wanted to listen to the Battle Of The Bands. If the rain doesn’t come, we plan on going back to the festival today. There’s a picnic at one of the local churches at 12:00, then we’ll go to the festival afterwards to listen to the bands again!

I hope all of you have a safe and happy Labor Day! Click on the image above to enlarge it! It’s beautiful…it’ll provide an oasis of vivid color to your day!
~Cecelia Dowdy~

Happy Father’s Day! I want to wish a Happy Father’s Day to all of the dads reading this post!

~Cecelia Dowdy~

I hope all the mothers out there enjoy this glorious, God-given day!

Me, my hubby, and our three and a half year old son went to the church Easter egg hunt in the pouring rain today! When we arrived at the church, I said, “Honey, do you really want to do this? Wouldn’t you rather go home?”
My son said, “No, Mommy. I want to hunt for Easter eggs.”
So off we went with the rest of the crowd to get eggs. For the little kids, under five, the eggs were spread out in a field.

Hubby carried the umbrella and CJ (our son) walked around the lot and collected the plastic eggs.

I forgot to bring a basket, so we had to place the plastic eggs in my purse.

Afterwards, everybody met up at the church so that the kids could open their eggs. They were filled with candy. I said to hubby, “Wouldn’t it have been easier to just buy him some candy and skip this egg hunt? That way, we would not have been standing in the rain for the last half hour!”

When we got home, I boiled some eggs and my son helped to dye them using food coloring, vinegar and water!

It’s been a busy day!

Happy Easter! I hope all of you have a blessed holiday! Remember Jesus’s sacrifice for our sins!

~Cecelia Dowdy~

Lord, please be with Barack Obama as he sworn in as our President today. Please let your Holy Spirit guide and protect him in making sound decisions as he leads this country. Also, Lord Jesus, help the First Family as they settle into their new roles in the White House.

In Jesus’ Name I pray,
Amen…
When Barack Obama is sworn in today, we all need to say a prayer, lift him up in God’s name as he takes the reins in the leadership of our country.

I hope everybody has a nice Inauguration Day.

~Cecelia Dowdy~

Remember the dream!

~Cecelia Dowdy~

I just wanted to wish everybody a Happy New Year! Do any of you have resolutions? I guess, mine would be that I need to make more of an effort to read my Bible daily (I tend to skip days if I’m tired or on deadline). Also, I want to finish this project within the first quarter of the year to submit to agents. I know my chances of selling this project are grim since the state of publishing has taken a nosedive lately!

Feel free to share your thoughts about the the Old Year (2008) and the New Year (2009). Did you keep your resolutions last year (or, better yet, can you even remember last year’s resolutions?) What are your resolutions for 2009?

~Cecelia Dowdy~