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It’s my blogiversary! I started my blog two years ago this month, and getting to know so many of you has been the best part about it.
I’m going away for Christmas, so to celebrate the holidays and my blogiversary, I’m hosting an end-of-year blowout wishfest for the new year!
Prize: $10 Amazon gift certificate, PAX mug, or an autographed book of your choice from my backlist! There will be three winners (each winner may choose one of the prize options listed above). How to play? Post your wish for the new year! Maybe magic will happen….
I’ll start.
I wish………
–there would be a great big blizzard so that I wouldn’t have to go anywhere for a week (and I would, of course, be stocked up on all necessities at the time).
–there would be no more wars, anywhere.
–my parents’ health was better.
–I could go to England again, and that when I got there, they would be driving on the right side of the road.
–my children grow up healthy and happy.
–I would sell lots of books this year!!
–I had sheep………
Post as many wishes as you want, but only one wish per day. I’ll be back Monday, January 1st, with the winners! So c’mon, wish upon a star with me! 
I went to Amish Country!!! I saw cute little Amish people in their cute little outfits riding around in their cute little horse-and-buggies! Okay, so first I got the cheese…. 
Then I took off down a country road, reeling with giddiness at the cuteness of it all. Buggies in the road! Little children running around with their cute little hat- and bonnet-covered heads! I wished I’d nabbed something pink and sparkly out of my daughter’s room to give the girls…. But no, that would be wrong wrong wrong…..
Ohio is home to the world’s largest concentrated population of Amish people. Where else would you find a buggy shop? There were buggies all over the place, and if they weren’t riding in buggies, they were walking or riding bicycles. Farms, fields of fodder shocks, and houses I wished I could go into to see how they live without electricity or telephones. There were cheese shops, candle shops, furniture shops, quilt shops–everywhere! I wished I had more time to shop. Through plate glass windows in the shops, you can watch them making candles and cheeses. The cute little Amish girls running the shops were so sweet. I almost didn’t expect them to speak English, they all seemed so foreign in a way. A world apart, right in the middle of America.
I wonder what it’s like to be a living, breathing tourist attraction? I was afraid to be too bold about taking pictures. I pulled over on the side of the road and just waited for buggies to come by, then I’d pop up my camera to take a quick picture. I almost felt bad about taking their picture at all, but I couldn’t resist.
