White Christmas!!

Well, it won't be a white Christmas here in SoCal - but it is shaping up to be a very wet one!!

Which reminds me of the Christmas of 1971 - we came down from SLC in our spiffy yellow VW. We drove back and forth between GH and EM. It got pretty crazy. And it was raining like it has been here - for every day we were there it seems. But one rainy day Dad and I headed into Downtown El Monte and the local Woolworths - and found a little red doll stroller that we bought for Santa to give to 14-month old Bonny Brae. Bonny loved that doll stroller - and I don't seem to have one photo of it - but it lasted a pretty long time. Funny how an inexpensive item can be such a perfect and memorable gift. (When we got back to SLC, we had a little Christmas celebration with our tree and gave her a Fisher Price House - which we still have - and which she - and all the other Terrill children - have loved!)

That was also the year that Dad declared that we were never going to travel on Christmas again - all that back and forth in the rain just did him in! (Little did he know that in a few years, we'd be back - and all the back and forth in the rain and the heat and the wind and the earthquakes would go on year-round!! Or maybe he did know!)