Thank you so much for the kind words!! I know there will be a lot of happy kids tomorrow morning because of the kindness of so many here on Lymenet.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! Many thanks to all for keeping this project going!!

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Hip hip, hooray!

And thank you to Barb for all her hard work!!

Lymesux: Thank you for the photo of the kids!!! Kaitlin and Aaron are adorable!

I notice YOU are up early this Christmas morning... I woke up 3 hours ago and finally gave up trying to fall back asleep! HA!

It is still dark out! and my kids are still asleep. Shhhh....

I sneaked downstairs, lit the tree, ate "Santa's" cookies and am typing as quietly as I can.

How long before they wake up?

JC is so excited about Santa coming this year, he's in holiday heaven.

Barb, You are the BEST for putting this Green Santa together. What an undertaking!!! JC, Julie and I had such fun with it. I hope this Christmas brings you much joy; you deserve it!

Lymesux, Thank you for all the wonderful support and kindness. All my prayers for your sweet angels recovery and yours!

Merry Christmas to YoU!

Thank you for thinking of this wonderful topic/Christmas gift to Barb.

She did an amazing job bringing joy to so many; she really knows the secret of Christmas joy.

Giving and love!

And opening presents and havin fun!!

There'll be lots of smiling faces today because of her dedication & hard work.
Lyme families helping Lyme families.
It's absolutely wonderful!!

And a happy and HEALTHY New Year to everyone!

And AK...those kids are tooooooo cute!

Have a fun day.

Betsy, your kids are adorable!

Andie, Cbb thanks for being a santa!

K-bear the picture looks just like me! GRIN

Thanks everyone for helping to spread a little joy, a little kindness and lots of love. You are all great!!! Barb

I just wanted to take a momement to say Thank you to each and everyone that made my daughter's Christmas special.

I wrapped all of the great presents and carefully placed them under the tree. I wsa a little late in giving her her antibiotics this morning so she actually walked downstairs to see where her pills were.

She walked past the tree and looked at all the gifts. Her very first question was........who are the packages for? I replied that the tags read: ASHLEY.

"Mom, are these from you Lyme Santas?? She knew that the "Lyme Santa's" made her Christmas last year special...........and ditto....they did it again.

I have sent each one of you a personal thank you note, I hope that you have recieved them. Ashley will also be writing notes to each of you over the weekend.

A special Thank You to Barb and Jon and the lovely April for all their efforts on Christmas Eve Day. Jon ..............even though Christmas is almost over, Ashley is waiting in eager anticipation for the Postman. Each Green Santa is a Angel and Ashley had a wonderful Christmas thanks to every one of you.

She wripped open the packages, put on her black sweatshirt hat and gloves, her two watches, ate a bag of raisenettes and couldn't wait to get a shower so she could try all the wonderful shampoos and body care products. She then lined her several new toothbrushes up in the bathroom ..............I ran out of Flinstone vitamins last week "Can I have two! Can I go upstairs and watch my movie??For a day........... she was a normal happy child, not thinking of lyme disease and it's pain.

A special Thank you for the Walmart Gift Certificate. We had been without milk thistle for over a week and I was able to buy that at Walmarts along with a DVD movie that Ashley has wanted but NEVER thought she would own it!!

I had such a warm feeling Christmas Eve from the kidness of Ashley's Green Santa's that I didn't have to watch THE MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET. I had the true spirit of Christmas right in my home thanks to Barb and Operation Green Santa.

All I can say again is Merry Christmas and may all the kindness that each of you shared with my daughter be returned to you a thousand times!

I'm so happy Ashley had such a wonderful Christmas.

Ashley has been a 'secret santa' of sorts to kaitlin for a while now sending her her beanie baby collection when she was too 'old' to care for it and well Aunty - Kaitlin will never forget that or all the other things and nor will I - so if anyone deserves a special Christmas it is you and Ashley!!!

I so wanted to join in on that this year but with just being diagnosed with lyme and with treatment and not being able to work for the last 4 months I wasn't able to join in. But I am doing better, (Thank the Lord) I hope to be able to help out with the Green santa next year!

That is such a good idea and project to be able to help our family here all have a great christmas! That is what Christmas is about. Not the presents but the smiles on the childrens faces says it all!