Ida’s Notebook Ida Risser My Christmas cards are sent but Now if I can just find time to not all of my decorations are in ma^e a ew more kinds of cookies place. When all the trimmings are be ready to pack some boxes on the tree and all of the wreaths or m y Amish neighbors. This has are on the doors, I feel as though become a tradition at our house as I’ve really accomplished we visit dnd take gifts at Christ something. So, I leave them up for mastime. a week or more after Christmas is When the children come home, it over. is like old times. They relieve me I Lykens Valley Structures | I RD 2, Box 59, Millersburg. 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