This quote has appeared as the closing benediction at my church for the last few years. It's never been more appropriate, and for me it echoes just what you're doing for this community you've built on the lime green sofa. “Life is short. We don't have much time to gladden the hearts of those who walk this way with us. So, be swift to love and make haste to be kind.”― Henri-Frédéric Amiel Merry Christmas to you and your family, and hope for the new year.
First year I've not been marginalized, been the "poor relative" ($$$$$), bliss in enjoying my "rich" life, (true, real friends, silly tree (spectacular), meal I ENJOY, lovely lovely Christmas. Silly me, could have been like this for many past years, but bowed to FAMILY. Always rainbows/clouds, doors closing/windows opening. Just Breathe. Happy Christmas to all (posted in 2023, to all before & future) No Mud, no Lotus!
You have become a dear friend of mine. I recently lost my husband of 64 years to Covid so this Christmas has been very sad of me and our children. Watching your videos is so heart-warming to me. I now realize that I can live alone with my dear cat and sew, sew, sew. Thanks so much for your warm personality, love of life and lastly cats! A devoted follower, Virginia Unger, USA
Dear Kate you have no idea how inspiring and calming you are ❤️ to have never met I feel like we are fast friends as I’m sure all the others on the lime green sofa feel too. ❤️
Kate how I so enjoy your sweet videos. You’re my RUclips best friend. I care about your happiness and we don’t know one another and yet it’s ok!! Merry Christmas dear lady!
I may have watched this earlier, but as Christmas slowly approaches and I most likely will be home alone, I plan to watch your lovely video this Christmas Eve! May God bless you always! ❣️🧶🎄🐱
I hope you show us your shop! I’d love to see it! I can’t give you my “thumbs up”- they don’t have my “you thumb”- idk why- but I follow you everyday since I retired! Love your videos but I am a snowbird, actually! Love your home with birds cats and animals near a lake! Great place and I love you, Kate! Wish I could be there myself! Sandra Myer💕🥰
I have not been read a Christmas story to for a very long time. You brought a tear to this 73 year young at heart believer. Happy Christmas, blessings to all.💕
Another 73 year old with tears as I sit in the hospital parking lot waiting for DH to complete a treatment. (A chronic condition) It’s as if all the stress has gone and I can just be. Thank you Kate.
Thank you that was lovely I'm a new subscriber and you story reminded me of being at Primary school at story time.Im 53 and they are still some of my favourite memories x
Watched this today in 2024 and remembered that Christmas 2020 was tough. But my mum and I were together on that Christmas and I am so very very grateful for that. Loved your reading - thank you.
Thank you for sharing such a gentle and beautiful video which brought a tear to my eye. 'And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make' and you have shared such warm and generous loving messages each time when the world has been so difficult for so many this year. Thank you for all the good you are doing. I hope that at your Christmas is full of peace and joy x
Today is Monday, May 23, 2023 10:44am. Kate, my newfound friend, I've been watching ur video's for the last two weeks. I watched u live yesterday! I just want to say. I never knew what that movie or story was about. How beautiful. I cried, hapi tears, and it touched my heart. Thank u
It’s so refreshing to see you stretch out your arms at the beginning of this video. I’m about your age, and I do it too. You’re never too old to be happy like a child. I am so glad you posted this video on this particular day. I’m not crying from the story; I’m crying from you reading it. It’s such a pleasure. Merry Christmas to you too.
Hi Kate ! A very Merry Christmas to you and the whole family! You are very dear to all of your watchers. Probably more than you know. And a very Happy New Year to all from Ontario, Canada !
Dear Kate. Thank for reading the Polar Express. Being 88 years old, its the first time I have ever been read to and its brought tears to my eyes listening to your soft voice reading the children's book. Its was lovely. Thank you for that Lovely gift. Happy Christmas to you and your .families.
Your video touched my heart this Christmas Eve. This holiday season is indeed very different for me. My son passed away this past May, and then the pandemic has made this even more difficult. But your calming reading of the Polar Express was a gentle little Christmas celebration for me. Please know that you can never be sure of who you may making a difference for in your video work. Merry Christmas!
Dear me....you have me in tears, my beagle keeps coming to see if I am ok. I have only just found you, it's Jan 5th in Australia daytime. I so wish I had have found you on Christmas Eve, late at night, lit my candle and listened to your story where we can all be children again, wrapped in the magic of Christmas. Thank you and with much appreciation I have climbed aboard your Lime Green Sofa
Aw Kate, a good cry again! I just watched this movie again last night. My oldest grandson now 15, would ask me to read this to him since he was about 3. Not long after that I was alone at the end of my 38 yr marriage. This one still reminds me of all good and bad memories swirled up together. When he was about 4 he was excited to give a special gift for Christmas to me-a silver bell. Made me cry!! I gave him a silver bell , too, that year. My 3 kids and little Collin practically saved my life over the years when I would be sad over my losses in life. They remind me all the time of my blessings and gratitude for what is left. Hang onto what is left. Merry Christmas and God bless! Kate I’m so happy your dad got his vaccine!! Love Lita xxxx
Lit a, I,too had a long marriage end. We will manage and survive. Life will be different, but still blessings ahead. Merry Christmas to a new single sister. People like Kate remind me a life alone can still be bountiful. Merry Christmas to you.
@@lorimeredith2043 I’ve been alone around 10 yrs now. It has taken a long time to get to where I am now. It is as if someone died but I’m okay now, I have survived and learned I am not as helpless as Everyone thought I was! I’m rather proud and amazed at some of my accomplishments. lol we are woman hear us roar!!
:ven three years later, this videos is so heartwearming. I didn´t know the book and now I will have a very lovely christmas present. The time you brought out this video I started my hexagon quilt - and now I am quilting it - also because of you. Thank you so much for your wonderful conetents! Greetings from Göppingen, Germany!
Chis van Alsburg was a favorite with my first grade class. He has other wonderful imaginative stories. Thanks for reading. I enjoy all year long with you From New Mexico USA
❤❤❤🥲🥲🥲 estou emocionada ❤️ que vídeo maravilhoso 💓💓 graças a Deus estamos todos bem 😊😊 Primeira vez que contam uma história pra mim 💗💗 🥲🥲 Estamos em 29/02/2024...1e meia da manhã... Precisava ouvir até o final... Que lindo... Obrigada Kate... Minha amiga querida ❤️ Deus abençoe... Bjusss 😊😊😊 Amo ver seus gatinhos passeando... Lindos demais 🇧🇷🇧🇷😻😻😻
I watched Arne and Carlos' video then yours. Didn't they look handsome! I teared up when they walked through the door. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I loved the film of The Polar Express. Tom Hanks is my favourite actor. They used a really cool technology to create the animation and it is so realistic. The book is beautiful too, the pictures just so amazing quality. I think I’ll look for my dvd of the film. Terrific choice to read for us! I think I gave my book to my grandson, wonder i& h3 still has it. A treasure. It’s 5:40pm for me here on the west coast of Canada and you may be sound asleep. Dear Kate, Merry Merry Christmas and cheers rising up to celebrate the Spirit in our hearts.🦌💌❤️❄️☃️❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎❣️💕💞💓💗💝💖
I vaguely remember my parents removing the paper from my broken Crayola crayons and placing the bits into tins. Then with pliers as a handle, holding the tins over flames. The next day I was given crayon "cookies". I don't recall eating any though. Take care and be safe 😷
Thank you again dear Kate! Love hearing you read and this story is so memorable! Wishing you a very lovely Xmas Eve and Xmas day however, you spend it ... You are loved by many! As always I will look for your next visit !! Appreciate you so very much for all the smiles and encouragement you gave in helping me through this very difficult year. I'm getting settled in my tiny apartment and my cats are having a bit of a time getting used to our new small corner in this cold part of our planet... We 3 are free on the lime green sofa and send much love to everyone there!!! xoxoxo
I'm finishing a bottle of prosecco with cranberry juice...the lambs were here for supper, and having children around makes all the difference! Wishing lovely things for you, darling lady!
2023…..and I just saw this. Still early as it’s only October, but I am already making decorations and Christmas shopping and enjoying the wonderful gift of your video. Thank you for this.
Love though Christmas Tree yummies....thanks for sharing ...amazing fun times...Crayon Rock is like a dream for me...wow...I want some to....I will have to go order them...what a great gift for next year for all my Archeology Friends......I love the Polar Express...
Oh I read this book to my third grade class in northern Manitoba years ago, as a new teacher. Behind me I had hidden a clear sounding bell. At the special spot near the book's end, the magic happened., Right on cue the bell, the magic, rang out! All innocent faces gasped as the lines were read aloud. And no, this teacher did not admit to hearing or ringing a bell. Pure magic. I fought back tears. (Third year of teaching, 1990)
Oh my Kate, a lovely video, listening you read that story. Your grandchildren will love the time when old enough to listen to you read them a story like that. 🥰
Merry Christmas Kate, lovely video as always.. Thanks for helping us through this strange year and the community that you created on the lime green sofa.. Thanks for sharing with us.
Merry Christmas , Kate. Our own Christmas Elf if ever their was one! I have sent my daughter a link to this video so that my grandchildren can have you reading them a story. Thank you, love xxx
Not seen tree shaped crumpets near my little hill but yours look so gooey and warm. Just like my heart as I think of all you beautiful folks out on the LGS. May you each have a peaceful weekend and if you are celebrating a holiday don't forget to blow out the candles before you sleep tonight. Much love from my hill here in Idaho USA!😉💞
My heart is full, thank you Kate for your generosity, joy and overwhelming creativity. I loved your reading of the story. So lovely. I thank you. Each time I watch you I am reminded to live, laugh and love. Much love is being sent back your way. May you feel the hug and warm wishes too. Merry Christmas
Dear Kate,first time in 31yr childless, I needed a bedtime story as the cats snuggle up,doves are roosting, snow is falling. So now I sleep on tlgs hearing fire pop and snap in this year of uncertainty thanks for being there
Merry Christmas Kate to you and yours. I have been in self Quarantine since March but I have very dear friends who check on me weekly and my son niece sister and brother plus watching you Pat Sloan and Joy Bernhardt on Utube Who share my days with Love knowledge and joy. 🌲🌲🎄🎄
I still hear the sleigh bells, even when it's not Christmas season. My Christmas lights stay up all year & when I need to feel that safe and warm feeling, I make my home dark then turn on the multi-colored twinkling lights . . . .all that special safe, warm, and sleigh bells come to me. Thank you for reading to me this morning!
Merry Christmas Kate and friends on the lime green sofa. I love the Polar Express, it is one of my favorite books. I use to read to my class each year and talk about them believing in themselves. I’m a retired elementary teacher. One of the things I decorate for Christmas with is baskets of children’s books and I enjoy going through them and not just at Christmas.
Creativity and keeping yourself busy is so good for the mind. Thank you for the joy you bring with your videos. May everyone have the best Xmas possible and know there is always someone to talk to even if it is online. 🎄
Have a joyous Christmas dear Kate. We're all snug as a bug in a lime green rug! Loved seeing you with your chooks - they are so charming. I miss mine...the first ones I had back in the seventies taught me to meditate. Yes, they did.
Kate, Merry Christmas to you ♥️ Thank you for reading to us this Christmas Eve. One of my favourite stories.... That I would read to my students every year..... Just before morning recess the last day before Winter Holidays ... As I read, I had another staff member drop bells on ribbons (that I had prepared the night before) into their boots... Oh the excitement as we headed out for recess! I think I cried every year. This is my first year retired from teaching...I miss it.... Perfect time for me to be read to. Thank you🤗
Happy Christmas to everyone I wish my poor mum could watch this she doesn’t have internet and all on her own this Christmas we aren’t allowed to go and get her much love xxx
Merry Christmas Kate! I'm up late (early Christmas day) in the US and you are keeping me company as I sit in front of my own wood stove. I love you reading to us. You have kept me company many an evening this year. I am so grateful to have found you online. Thank you for being you and sharing so much of your life with us.
What a beautiful thing to share. We adults forget too often that the simple things that children love can give us joy and peace too. Have a beautiful joyous Christmas and be well🎄
No dry eyes in this house when you finished reading my favorite Christmas story. All the best as always to you, Kate, and your lovely family of four-leggeds and two-leggeds and humans, too. Love, Karen xxx
I’m not sure you’ll ever see this but I’m watching this Christmas Eve Video in May of 2022 while sewing. It’s a 90 degree day so I’m not sure why I’m watching a Christmas video except for that I’m catching up on all yours. The Polar Express was written by an author from my city- Grand Rapids, Michigan and the artwork reflects locations from there. I was visiting my mother in law in a nursing home and I met the authors parents who also lived there. Beautiful people and oh so very, very proud of their author son. Enjoy!
I’m watching this on 12/30/24. You now have 185,000 subscribers and in this video you mention you have 1,500. So very Happy for all the people you reach!
That was a beautiful story Kate, what a lovely gift you gave us by reading it to us. I love the image of us all on the lime green sofa too, we are connected around the world. Wishing you & all your fur & feathered babies a wonderful Christmas!🎄🎁🎅🤶
Merry Christmas, Kate and cats! I'm a new subscriber, but I so enjoy your channel. What a lovely reading for Christmas Eve. Thank you for adding that special touch to the holiday. Many blessings to you and your family (kitties, too, of course) for the coming year. Love from Iowa, USA.❤🎅🎄
Oh Kate I am so glad I found you. I am happy to watch your little stories of your life. May you and your sweet family have a very Merry Christmas! You have brought joy to a really dark and lonely time. My hope is that we all have a better 2021. There has been so much loss and sadness. Thank you for being the bright spot we all are searching for. Peace be with you always 💗
All of us on the lime green sofa were a little anxious and worried about you on the stool, reaching over to put up Christmas cards😹. Merry Christmas and a very happy new year 2021.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful peace. Last Homely House has been a special haven for me for a long while. Bless you Kate and your lovely family. Merry Christmas ❤️
Oh my heart strings..Polar Express is a memory with my youngest son...he passed away three years ago at the age of 22 yrs.old.I dare anyone not to be moved even shed a tear.Thank you for a loving memory🙏🏻
I’ve just watched this after Christmas 2024 and it reminds me just how hard it was then. I’m sad that the experience doesn’t seem to have made the world a better place. But I still hope ❤
That was lovely, thank you. I have squidgied myself into a little spot on your lime green sofa. I'll be bringing lots of turkey to share tomorrow because my pared down Christmas involved turkey for just two of us, but my partner was admitted to hospital yesterday so I need to cook the defrosted turkey for one. Strange times, but by being kind as you say we will get through it. Happy Christmas!
Merry Christmas Kate to you and all your family and to all the friends on the LGS. It is getting quite late and I am waiting to put my turkey in a slow oven for tomorrow's meal. I pray everyone is well. Kate, thank you for the story, I have not read that book. Nice choice for this evening. We have only had rain to day so there will not be a white Christmas in my area of Va. Look forward to seeing Agnes's Christmas gift from Grandma Kate. Blessings to all.
Kate and family…. MAY GOD BLESS your HEART. I TELL EVERYONE IF WE COULD ALL JUST BE KIND. IT WOULD MAKE SUCH A DIFFERENCE IN OUR HEARTS AND LIVES. CREATIVITY WITH OUR HANDS WHEN POWERED WITH LOVE FOR OTHETS RATHER THAN OURSELVES WOULD CHANGE THE WORLD. I KNOW THIS VIDEO WAS IN THE PAST BUT…. SIMPLE SWEET… it was. I LOVE YOUR SHOWS ..such FUN. THANK YOU FOR TIME WELL SPENT. SHERI❤❤
This quote has appeared as the closing benediction at my church for the last few years. It's never been more appropriate, and for me it echoes just what you're doing for this community you've built on the lime green sofa. “Life is short. We don't have much time to gladden the hearts of those who walk this way with us. So, be swift to love and make haste to be kind.”― Henri-Frédéric Amiel Merry Christmas to you and your family, and hope for the new year.
Thank you. So beautiful 25:21
I love this quote, thank you!!!
I just watched this for the first time. I love it when you read to us. It is so soothing to the soul.
The Christmas Prawn! 😂🤣😅
First year I've not been marginalized, been the "poor relative" ($$$$$), bliss in enjoying my "rich" life, (true, real friends, silly tree (spectacular), meal I ENJOY, lovely lovely Christmas. Silly me, could have been like this for many past years, but bowed to FAMILY. Always rainbows/clouds, doors closing/windows opening. Just Breathe. Happy Christmas to all (posted in 2023, to all before & future) No Mud, no Lotus!
You have become a dear friend of mine. I recently lost my husband of 64 years to Covid so this Christmas has been very sad of me and our children. Watching your videos is so heart-warming to me. I now realize that I can live alone with my dear cat and sew, sew, sew. Thanks so much for your warm personality, love of life and lastly cats! A devoted follower, Virginia Unger, USA
I can't watch the film without crying......I'm saving this for Christmas as I spend holidays alone [which is fine]. Thank you!
Dear Kate you have no idea how inspiring and calming you are ❤️ to have never met I feel like we are fast friends as I’m sure all the others on the lime green sofa feel too. ❤️
Kate how I so enjoy your sweet videos. You’re my RUclips best friend. I care about your happiness and we don’t know one another and yet it’s ok!! Merry Christmas dear lady!
I think we are all “best friends” and none of us know one another at all!
The LGS is indeed a very pleasant place to sit!❤️❤️
I may have watched this earlier, but as Christmas slowly approaches and I most likely will be home alone, I plan to watch your lovely video this Christmas Eve! May God bless you always! ❣️🧶🎄🐱
What a lovely video to watch. Happy Christmas to a lovely woman.
I hope you show us your shop! I’d love to see it! I can’t give you my “thumbs up”- they don’t have my “you thumb”- idk why- but I follow you everyday since I retired! Love your videos but I am a snowbird, actually! Love your home with birds cats and animals near a lake!
Great place and I love you, Kate! Wish I could be there myself! Sandra Myer💕🥰
Wishing you love and peace this Christmas. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your wonderful videos that bring calm to my soul .
Thank you ❤️
I wish you a very happy and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. God bless you and yours. 😊❤❤❤
I have not been read a Christmas story to for a very long time. You brought a tear to this 73 year young at heart believer. Happy Christmas, blessings to all.💕
💖 Merry Merry Christmas to you, Glenys. I hope joy finds you in some special way today!
I hope you hear the silver bell Glenys. Merry Christmas.
Like what you said 73 young we are as old as we let ourselves be. Blessings Anita
Another 73 year old with tears as I sit in the hospital parking lot waiting for DH to complete a treatment. (A chronic condition) It’s as if all the stress has gone and I can just be. Thank you Kate.
I too have tears running down my face, but good tears Good tears touch the heart
Thank you that was lovely I'm a new subscriber and you story reminded me of being at Primary school at story time.Im 53 and they are still some of my favourite memories x
Merry Christmas to you, Kate, to your family - and to all the people around the world, who are sitting on the lime green sofa.
And Merry Christmas to you too, friend xx Hope you're safe and well!
@@girlinthebookstore thank you 😊
Watched this today in 2024 and remembered that Christmas 2020 was tough. But my mum and I were together on that Christmas and I am so very very grateful for that. Loved your reading - thank you.
Merry Christmas Kate to you,your family and to everyone on the lime green sofa. 🤗🙏🏻🌟
Yes!!!!🎄🎄🎄🎄🍈sofa(no sofa emoji 😢)
I'm so glad to find this lovely video. Enchanting.
Thank you for sharing such a gentle and beautiful video which brought a tear to my eye. 'And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make' and you have shared such warm and generous loving messages each time when the world has been so difficult for so many this year. Thank you for all the good you are doing. I hope that at your Christmas is full of peace and joy x
A tip : watch series on Kaldrostream. I've been using it for watching a lot of movies lately.
@Rex Caspian yup, been watching on kaldroStream for years myself :)
Today is Monday, May 23, 2023 10:44am.
Kate, my newfound friend, I've been watching ur video's for the last two weeks. I watched u live yesterday!
I just want to say. I never knew what that movie or story was about. How beautiful. I cried, hapi tears, and it touched my heart. Thank u
Agnes is a lucky girl to have you as her Grandma.
So. yummie Christmas biscuits😮more! thanks your showing your wonderful Kate and Anna💕😉
It’s so refreshing to see you stretch out your arms at the beginning of this video. I’m about your age, and I do it too. You’re never too old to be happy like a child. I am so glad you posted this video on this particular day. I’m not crying from the story; I’m crying from you reading it. It’s such a pleasure. Merry Christmas to you too.
Your words are my thoughts. My English is not so good , but you said it well. Merry Christmas. 🌲
I’m kates age too! She opens my eyes to the possibilities that are still available
Your not alown ,I sat with tears streaming down my face for the second time today,but happy tears.Have a wonderful Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you too!
@@lunardesignstudiolinda1256 so it is !!!!! She has the same affect on me.
So special! I am watching this on Sept 27.2024!
Hi Kate ! A very Merry Christmas to you and the whole family! You are very dear to all of your watchers. Probably more than you know. And a very Happy New Year to all from Ontario, Canada !
Hi Kate I have not heard the story of polar express before it was lovely thank you for that take care stay safe
Dear Kate. Thank for reading the Polar Express. Being 88 years old, its the first time I have ever been read to and its brought tears to my eyes listening to your soft voice reading the children's book. Its was lovely. Thank you for that Lovely gift. Happy Christmas to you and your .families.
Your video touched my heart this Christmas Eve. This holiday season is indeed very different for me. My son passed away this past May, and then the pandemic has made this even more difficult. But your calming reading of the Polar Express was a gentle little Christmas celebration for me. Please know that you can never be sure of who you may making a difference for in your video work. Merry Christmas!
Dear Amy, I am so sorry for your loss. Wishing you peace as we near the end of the year. ❤️
My deep condolences for the loss of your beloved son. 🌺
Dear me....you have me in tears, my beagle keeps coming to see if I am ok. I have only just found you, it's Jan 5th in Australia daytime. I so wish I had have found you on Christmas Eve, late at night, lit my candle and listened to your story where we can all be children again, wrapped in the magic of Christmas. Thank you and with much appreciation I have climbed aboard your Lime Green Sofa
Aw Kate, a good cry again! I just watched this movie again last night. My oldest grandson now 15, would ask me to read this to him since he was about 3. Not long after that I was alone at the end of my 38 yr marriage. This one still reminds me of all good and bad memories swirled up together. When he was about 4 he was excited to give a special gift for Christmas to me-a silver bell. Made me cry!! I gave him a silver bell , too, that year. My 3 kids and little Collin practically saved my life over the years when I would be sad over my losses in life. They remind me all the time of my blessings and gratitude for what is left. Hang onto what is left. Merry Christmas and God bless! Kate I’m so happy your dad got his vaccine!! Love Lita xxxx
Lit a, I,too had a long marriage end. We will manage and survive. Life will be different, but still blessings ahead. Merry Christmas to a new single sister. People like Kate remind me a life alone can still be bountiful. Merry Christmas to you.
@@lorimeredith2043 I’ve been alone around 10 yrs now. It has taken a long time to get to where I am now. It is as if someone died but I’m okay now, I have survived and learned I am not as helpless as Everyone thought I was! I’m rather proud and amazed at some of my accomplishments. lol we are woman hear us roar!!
:ven three years later, this videos is so heartwearming. I didn´t know the book and now I will have a very lovely christmas present. The time you brought out this video I started my hexagon quilt - and now I am quilting it - also because of you. Thank you so much for your wonderful conetents! Greetings from Göppingen, Germany!
Chis van Alsburg was a favorite with my first grade class. He has other wonderful imaginative stories. Thanks for reading. I enjoy all year long with you
From New Mexico USA
❤❤❤🥲🥲🥲 estou emocionada ❤️ que vídeo maravilhoso 💓💓 graças a Deus estamos todos bem 😊😊
Primeira vez que contam uma história pra mim 💗💗
🥲🥲 Estamos em 29/02/2024...1e meia da manhã... Precisava ouvir até o final... Que lindo... Obrigada Kate... Minha amiga querida ❤️
Deus abençoe... Bjusss 😊😊😊
Amo ver seus gatinhos passeando... Lindos demais 🇧🇷🇧🇷😻😻😻
Merry Christmas to everyone on the lime green sofa! I hope Santa’s bell still rings for you. ❤️
Merry Christmas from Denver, Colorado!
I watched Arne and Carlos' video then yours. Didn't they look handsome! I teared up when they walked through the door. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I loved the film of The Polar Express. Tom Hanks is my favourite actor. They used a really cool technology to create the animation and it is so realistic. The book is beautiful too, the pictures just so amazing quality. I think I’ll look for my dvd of the film. Terrific choice to read for us! I think I gave my book to my grandson, wonder i& h3 still has it. A treasure. It’s 5:40pm for me here on the west coast of Canada and you may be sound asleep. Dear Kate, Merry Merry Christmas and cheers rising up to celebrate the Spirit in our hearts.🦌💌❤️❄️☃️❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎❣️💕💞💓💗💝💖
Wonderful sitting around basking in the warmth of The Christmas Prawn. It's my first year with this superb decoration.
I vaguely remember my parents removing the paper from my broken Crayola crayons and placing the bits into tins. Then with pliers as a handle, holding the tins over flames. The next day I was given crayon "cookies". I don't recall eating any though. Take care and be safe 😷
Thank you again dear Kate! Love hearing you read and this story is so memorable! Wishing you a very lovely Xmas Eve and Xmas day however, you spend it ... You are loved by many! As always I will look for your next visit !! Appreciate you so very much for all the smiles and encouragement you gave in helping me through this very difficult year. I'm getting settled in my tiny apartment and my cats are having a bit of a time getting used to our new small corner in this cold part of our planet... We 3 are free on the lime green sofa and send much love to everyone there!!! xoxoxo
I'm finishing a bottle of prosecco with cranberry juice...the lambs were here for supper, and having children around makes all the difference! Wishing lovely things for you, darling lady!
I closed my eyes and listened to you read and it was lovely. Thank you.
2023…..and I just saw this. Still early as it’s only October, but I am already making decorations and Christmas shopping and enjoying the wonderful gift of your video.
Thank you for this.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL ACROSS the big water. May you all be safe and healthy. Love you.
Love though Christmas Tree yummies....thanks for sharing ...amazing fun times...Crayon Rock is like a dream for me...wow...I want some to....I will have to go order them...what a great gift for next year for all my Archeology Friends......I love the Polar Express...
Merry Christmas, Kate and the Lime Green Sofa family. Peace and Love🥰
Oh I read this book to my third grade class in northern Manitoba years ago, as a new teacher. Behind me I had hidden a clear sounding bell. At the special spot near the book's end, the magic happened., Right on cue the bell, the magic, rang out! All innocent faces gasped as the lines were read aloud. And no, this teacher did not admit to hearing or ringing a bell. Pure magic. I fought back tears. (Third year of teaching, 1990)
Such a lovely gentle video, thank you Kate. Merry Christmas to you and all at the Last Homely House. Take care everyone ❤
Oh my Kate, a lovely video, listening you read that story. Your grandchildren will love the time when old enough to listen to you read them a story like that. 🥰
Merry Christmas Kate, lovely video as always.. Thanks for helping us through this strange year and the community that you created on the lime green sofa.. Thanks for sharing with us.
Merry Christmas for all of you💝
Merry Christmas , Kate. Our own Christmas Elf if ever their was one! I have sent my daughter a link to this video so that my grandchildren can have you reading them a story. Thank you, love xxx
Not seen tree shaped crumpets near my little hill but yours look so gooey and warm. Just like my heart as I think of all you beautiful folks out on the LGS. May you each have a peaceful weekend and if you are celebrating a holiday don't forget to blow out the candles before you sleep tonight. Much love from my hill here in Idaho USA!😉💞
My heart is full, thank you Kate for your generosity, joy and overwhelming creativity. I loved your reading of the story. So lovely. I thank you. Each time I watch you I am reminded to live, laugh and love. Much love is being sent back your way. May you feel the hug and warm wishes too. Merry Christmas
Dear Kate,first time in 31yr childless, I needed a bedtime story as the cats snuggle up,doves are roosting, snow is falling. So now I sleep on tlgs hearing fire pop and snap in this year of uncertainty thanks for being there
And thank you too Kate, it’s wonderful to be part of your fabulous community here at the last homely house. Merry Christmas everyone x
Merry Christmas Kate to you and yours. I have been in self Quarantine since March but I have very dear friends who check on me weekly and my son niece sister and brother plus watching you Pat Sloan and Joy Bernhardt on Utube Who share my days with Love knowledge and joy. 🌲🌲🎄🎄
Merry Christmas to you all and to all a Peace filled night
I still hear the sleigh bells, even when it's not Christmas season. My Christmas lights stay up all year & when I need to feel that safe and warm feeling, I make my home dark then turn on the multi-colored twinkling lights . . . .all that special safe, warm, and sleigh bells come to me. Thank you for reading to me this morning!
I’m overwhelmed with this gorgeous beautiful video. What a Christmas treasure. You stay safe and have a happy Christmas.
❤ 15/7 2023 What am I doing? Watching this and cry . 😂 All the best Kate and thank you for sharing the light.
Merry Christmas Kate
Merry Christmas Kate and friends on the lime green sofa. I love the Polar Express, it is one of my favorite books. I use to read to my class each year and talk about them believing in themselves. I’m a retired elementary teacher. One of the things I decorate for Christmas with is baskets of children’s books and I enjoy going through them and not just at Christmas.
Creativity and keeping yourself busy is so good for the mind. Thank you for the joy you bring with your videos. May everyone have the best Xmas possible and know there is always someone to talk to even if it is online. 🎄
Have a joyous Christmas dear Kate. We're all snug as a bug in a lime green rug! Loved seeing you with your chooks - they are so charming. I miss mine...the first ones I had back in the seventies taught me to meditate. Yes, they did.
Kate, Merry Christmas to you ♥️ Thank you for reading to us this Christmas Eve. One of my favourite stories.... That I would read to my students every year..... Just before morning recess the last day before Winter Holidays ... As I read, I had another staff member drop bells on ribbons (that I had prepared the night before) into their boots... Oh the excitement as we headed out for recess! I think I cried every year. This is my first year retired from teaching...I miss it.... Perfect time for me to be read to. Thank you🤗
4 Nov 2024, marvellous story. Heartwarming to share this with you. Thank you Katec❤❤
Thank you for the story, I had not remembered that story because of loss of memory. Have a very peaceful lovely Christmas, bye for now.
Love this❤️in a new year 2025. How much to be thankful for ❤️hugs from Michigan ☃️
Happy Christmas to everyone I wish my poor mum could watch this she doesn’t have internet and all on her own this Christmas we aren’t allowed to go and get her much love xxx
That’s hard. ❤️ Call her up and read her a lovely story over the phone. It’s never too late. 🥰
Thanks, Kate, for all your love and crafting on here. For offering the lime green sofa to sit on and chat. Big hug, to you and all on here.
And a Happy New Year too 🤩
Merry Christmas Kate! I'm up late (early Christmas day) in the US and you are keeping me company as I sit in front of my own wood stove. I love you reading to us. You have kept me company many an evening this year. I am so grateful to have found you online. Thank you for being you and sharing so much of your life with us.
What a beautiful thing to share. We adults forget too often that the simple things that children love can give us joy and peace too. Have a beautiful joyous Christmas and be well🎄
What a beautiful story, I really liked your soft a positive voice. Thank you so much for spending a lovely time with us. ❤
Happy Holidays, Best Wishes for a better 2021 👍❤️😊 Thanks for the Christmas story, beautiful ❤️
I love children’s books as well. Magical 💙💚💜🌲
No dry eyes in this house when you finished reading my favorite Christmas story. All the best as always to you, Kate, and your lovely family of four-leggeds and two-leggeds and humans, too. Love, Karen xxx
I’m not sure you’ll ever see this but I’m watching this Christmas Eve Video in May of 2022 while sewing. It’s a 90 degree day so I’m not sure why I’m watching a Christmas video except for that I’m catching up on all yours. The Polar Express was written by an author from my city- Grand Rapids, Michigan and the artwork reflects locations from there. I was visiting my mother in law in a nursing home and I met the authors parents who also lived there. Beautiful people and oh so very, very proud of their author son. Enjoy!
I really enjoyed this video, no travels or visitors this year, so this was a nice surprise. Christmas Blessings To You And Yours!
Love when you read! You create such an aura of peace and calm.
That was lovely! Thank you so much. It has been a few decades since someone has read me a story and I quite enjoyed it. Merry Christmas! 🇨🇦🎄💚
I’m watching this on 12/30/24. You now have 185,000 subscribers and in this video you mention you have 1,500. So very Happy for all the people you reach!
That was a beautiful story Kate, what a lovely gift you gave us by reading it to us. I love the image of us all on the lime green sofa too, we are connected around the world. Wishing you & all your fur & feathered babies a wonderful Christmas!🎄🎁🎅🤶
Merry Christmas, Kate and cats! I'm a new subscriber, but I so enjoy your channel. What a lovely reading for Christmas Eve. Thank you for adding that special touch to the holiday. Many blessings to you and your family (kitties, too, of course) for the coming year. Love from Iowa, USA.❤🎅🎄
Merry Christmas ⭐️
Oh Kate I am so glad I found you. I am happy to watch your little stories of your life. May you and your sweet family have a very Merry Christmas! You have brought joy to a really dark and lonely time. My hope is that we all have a better 2021. There has been so much loss and sadness. Thank you for being the bright spot we all are searching for. Peace be with you always 💗
All of us on the lime green sofa were a little anxious and worried about you on the stool, reaching over to put up Christmas cards😹.
Merry Christmas and a very happy new year 2021.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful peace. Last Homely House has been a special haven for me for a long while. Bless you Kate and your lovely family. Merry Christmas ❤️
What a wonderful time of year to discover your channel. Merry Christmas!
Oh my heart strings..Polar Express is a memory with my youngest son...he passed away three years ago at the age of 22 yrs.old.I dare anyone not to be moved even shed a tear.Thank you for a loving memory🙏🏻
Merry Christmas to all and everybody.... Love - Peace - Light..... 🙏🧡
I’ve just watched this after Christmas 2024 and it reminds me just how hard it was then. I’m sad that the experience doesn’t seem to have made the world a better place. But I still hope ❤
Merry Christmas! May 2021 be full of grace and blessings
Thank you Kate for the lovely video and read. The movie is on TV tomorrow and I’m looking forward to watching it. Merry Christmas one and all. ☃️🎄🤶🎅
Merry Christmas Kate and your family. I watched The Polar Express today but have never read or heard the book. THANKS!!!! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
That was lovely, thank you. I have squidgied myself into a little spot on your lime green sofa. I'll be bringing lots of turkey to share tomorrow because my pared down Christmas involved turkey for just two of us, but my partner was admitted to hospital yesterday so I need to cook the defrosted turkey for one. Strange times, but by being kind as you say we will get through it. Happy Christmas!
A prayer sent to your partner from Huntsville Al
Merry Christmas Kate to you and all your family and to all the friends on the LGS. It is getting quite late and I am waiting to put my turkey in a slow oven for tomorrow's meal. I pray everyone is well. Kate, thank you for the story, I have not read that book. Nice choice for this evening. We have only had rain to day so there will not be a white Christmas in my area of Va.
Look forward to seeing Agnes's Christmas gift from Grandma Kate. Blessings to all.
Thank you Kate, Merry Christmas to you and your family and to everyone else on the lime green sofa xx
Kate and family…. MAY GOD BLESS your HEART. I TELL EVERYONE IF WE COULD ALL JUST BE KIND. IT WOULD MAKE SUCH A DIFFERENCE IN OUR HEARTS AND LIVES. CREATIVITY WITH OUR HANDS WHEN POWERED WITH LOVE FOR OTHETS RATHER THAN OURSELVES WOULD CHANGE THE WORLD. I KNOW THIS VIDEO WAS IN THE PAST BUT…. SIMPLE SWEET… it was. I LOVE YOUR SHOWS ..such FUN. THANK YOU FOR TIME WELL SPENT. SHERI❤❤
You’re getting a white Xmas,lucky you.Merry Xmas to you and yours Kate.🎄