It's here and I am not ready.
Not a surprise. Really. Yet somehow I underestimate my holiday energy.
Imagine that! Each and every year. I know, I know, I of all people know how trying the holidays are. After playing Santa all month delivering packages and cards and even more packages I head home from work with grand intentions ( really big grand intentions! ) of getting the house all holiday spiffy etc. Then I actually walk in the door - sit down and just - whew! Tired! I need to redo Christmas around here and reschedule it. Say, like sometime in oh I don't know, JULY!?
Actually I really do love the Christmas holiday. To drive past the beautiful decorations and lights. A glimpse of a tree all done up in a window. The general good cheer of people out and about. It is like one big love fest of color and lights!
So in spite of all the sapped energies our tree is up and decorated lights and all ( thanks in a very large part to the boy!)
One of my favorite parts of decorating the tree is pulling out some ornament and remembering what made it special.
The angel made of felt and yarn that was carried around by daughter and left on a city bus..she cried buckets..I bought a new one...I smile each year at the memory now. The joy of the Santa and the teddy bear ornaments. the girls singing Christmas and Hanukkah songs. Each one trying to be loudest.
I get pretty nostalgic around this time.. But I really love Christmas! And of course it would not be the same in July...
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Now's the time to come in the door, fix a cup of hot cocoa, sit down and enjoy the tree, the memories and the joy of the season.
I wonder about the people who live south of the equator--they celebrate Christmas at the hottest time of the year. I suppose one gets used to it. Now rest and enjoy your tree. There's always so much to do at Christmas.
its so nice to read your pure joy about this time of year and not cynical stuff....makes me feel good. thank you for this post! i'm not even a holiday person per se but i enjoy the purity of this post.
I used to say the same thing when I was trudging through snow with holiday packages. "Why can't Christmas be in summer?" :)
I commend you for finding any energy left for yourself this time of year and for your "good will toward men" still shining through.
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