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My first-born granddaughter, Kaylin Marie, started drawing pictures when she was very young.  In 2002 Kaylin decided to draw a picture of a Christmas tree for her grandmother Marcia.  Somehow, the Christmas tree became an angel blowing a horn. I was amazed that a seven-year-old could make the Angel’s cheek look like it was puffed out, blowing the horn. I borrowed the drawing from Marcia and used it to make my first Angel Christmas card.   Every year after that I would ask Kaylin to draw an angel to use for my Christmas Angel card.  (2002 photo attached).

Five years later Kaylin started with a photo of her younger sister Christen and my son’s daughter Anna as a basis for the angel card.  She added some wings and halos and that was the Angel Card 2007. 

Shortly after this, Kaylin decided to retire. The next year Christen drew her first angel.  She was only five years old. Christen has drawn the Christmas Angels ever since then.  The comparison of her very first angel and the one that she drew in 2024 is amazing.  I am looking forward to the 2025 version. 

Thank you, Kaylin, and Christen.  Oh, and Marcia too.      

The St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra will be performing their Children’s Holiday Concert this Sunday afternoon at 1.  The Festival of Frolic and Reflection concert will be performed at 3:30 pm.  All the Symphony Orchestra concerts are performed in Ritsche Auditorium at St. Cloud State University. Tickets are available at www.stcloudsymphony.com or at the door.   

Also, The George Maurer Group annual Christmas Show is at The Paramount Theater this coming Monday at 7:30. Tickets are available at www.paramountarts.org   “Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets