Holiday Greetings and a Holiday Gift for You

I know that this is a very busy time of year for most people, so I won’t take up much of your time. I just wanted to send a quick note to let you know I am grateful for all my wonderful readers! I love to hear from you, so please leave a comment on the post at www.mariegage.ca OR hit reply to this message and let me know what you think of the Promise Series, or just say hi and let me know you’ve gotten my message. I answer every message … just know it may sometimes take a bit of time but I will get back to you, even if only to acknowledge your message.

Now for a bit of an amusing story about life in the Gage household. This year the snow came a bit early and the dirt in the planters out the front of my house froze, and I couldn’t do my usual baskets of greenery collected from the woods nearby. I had to figure something else out.

I dug through the ornaments and decorations left over, after the finishing touches on the inside of the house were complete, and selected a few things to add to the exterior baskets. They had to be weatherproof, of course. We live in a cold, snowy and windy environment. I also hunted for outside ornaments that I could add a bow to.

What I came up with was a basket of ornaments and some fake berries for one and the same fake berries and a stone rabbit that I decorated with a bow around its neck. I added a couple of fake poinsetta flowers and voila!

When I stood back to look at the baskets, I wondered if I had mixed up my holidays. The basket of ornaments looked a bit like a basket of eggs, and with the stone rabbit in the other planter, it looked a bit like I was expecting the Easter Bunny instead of Santa Claus!

Whatever holiday you are celebrating, I wish you the best and hope you will continue to follow my journey and enjoy what I write!

A Christmas Gift for You

If you didn’t get it when you signed up for the newsletter in the first place, you might want to download the story, Betrayal, from Bookfunnel — my gift to you for your support! Just click this link to read it online or download it. It includes characters who will be in my next novel that I am currently calling “Finding Theresa” (but the title could change).

If that doesn’t excite you, then perhaps reading my manual on Family History Interviewing will be a better gift. I encourage everyone to interview members of their family who hold historical family knowledge before they are no longer able to tell their tales. Just click her for the guide.

Happy Holidays