Christmas Break and Christmas Greetings

     I will be taking a break from writing and illustrating the blog for a while because I need to take time to write something to send to a publisher.  Thank you! and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!

A Christmas Story For You (Part Two) by Joanne Morris Okano

 Brigham, Paul, and Somerset.

     One of the highlights of Christmas this year was when some members of the family took us to  a drive-through Nativity with several scenes from the story of Jesus Christ's birth with live actors.  I did my visiting teaching, made or bought gifts for family members, attended a family get-together for Christmas, two Christmas parties and watched a Christmas movie.   But with the days passing lickety-spit till Christmas Day, I thought I wouldn't have time to attend the temple this month or I'd have to cancel Christmas.  The reason: cookies.

     I'm usually a lousy cookie baker, scorching my cookies, but I found that with parchment paper between the cookies and the baking sheet the cookies didn't burn.  So I went from thinking cookies were a pain in the neck and something I'd skip doing at Christmas, to an overdose almost of cookie baking, once I learned this trick.

     Finally I realized that if I didn't bake cookies a third time this Christmas I'd have time to attend the temple.  Christ is the reason for the temple.  Even the crows sing hallelujah.  So why couldn't I worship Jesus Christ at the temple?  I planned a trip there the next night.  I am grateful that Jesus Christ is my Saviour.  I even wrote a list of all the things I am grateful for...at 6 o'clock in the morning! 

The End

A Christmas Story For You by Joanne Morris Okano

     I have four children, for whom I am grateful: Shoshana,

To Be Continued...

Stages Of Growth (Stage Three) by Joanne Morris Okano

Stages Of Growth (Stage Two) by Joanne Morris Okano

Stages Of Growth (Stage One) by Joanne Morris Okano

Dutch Dancing by Joanne Morris Okano

Kaatje And Arnold by Joanne Morris Okano

Friend by Joanne Morris Okano

Here is my friend about whom I am writing a song.

The Fox by Joanne Morris Okano

As a girl in England I used to go home on a bus called "Number 146 Keston Fox."

One day I looked out of my window at my 

house to see my puppy, playing in the backyard, with a red fox.

Dancers (Third Stage) by Joanne Morris Okano

Dancers (Stage Two) by Joanne Morris Okano

Dancers (Unfinished Work) by Joanne Morris Okano

This Is What God Looks Like

The boy-prophet Joseph Smith saw Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ.  They appeared to him in a vision in a grove of trees when he went there to ask God which church to join.