Christmas Open House

Every year my neighbor, Janeal, has a Christmas Open House. I am her official partner in this adventure. We actually started doing it 8 years ago. A bunch of us were kind of dissapointed that the ward had cancelled the December Enrichment. "Everyone was too busy". I guess it would have been ok but they were dividing our ward at that time also. We wanted to get together. So we started this tradition. We had over 50 people there the first year. Everyone wanted to come talk about the new wards and get together for one last time. Everyone just brought a treat to share and came and visited for a while. Well, it was such a hit that we continued it every year since. It seems it is a different group every year, some new some old. But most everyone that has been coming the whole time looks forward to it. We even get calls to find out when it will be! We have 2 ladies that come that are not members so we say it is our "missionary effort". It is one of the few times these ladies associate with the neighbors. The new tradition is that if you come you get one of Janeal's homemade "scrubbies". They are great and some ladies come just for that. Anyway, it is a busy but fun day!