I love Christmas time.
I take Christmas music in my car and start to play it the day after
Thanksgiving. That’s saying something as
my music of choice is classic rock ‘n roll.
I shop for Christmas all year long.
When I hear one of my family members say they would like something, I
save it in my memory and then when I come across that item, I buy it, even if
it is April. I love to bake Christmas
cookies, cakes and pies and getting together with family is fun-mostly, there
is always that one family member. But
you determine to tolerate him/her for the day because, well, they are family.
Flexibility has had to join the Christmas spirit as
well. Since my son works for a TV
station, he often has to work on
Christmas Day. I know people in the
medical profession, police, firemen, and the armed forces to name a few often
need to work on Christmas as well. It
becomes difficult as well when family lives out of state. Because of this, our family had Christmas in
Battle Creek at my sister’s which was a somewhat middle ground meeting place
for my father and me at Elk Lake and my son and his wife in Louisville,
Kentucky. We really only had the chance
to spend one day together. It was fun as
it was a white Christmas, cold outside, but warm inside. It was fun to talk to my family in person
instead of texting, calling or even facetiming. Everyone left the next day to
return to their homes, and once everyone had texted that they were safely home,
we all sighed a sigh of relief and crashed in our own beds.
My family’s Christmas is over for this year. It wasn’t
about the presents, it was about spending time together, seeing each other,
joking at the dinner table, and spending time with Mom at the home, even though
she had no idea who we were. Christmas,
though very different from years past, was good because of the love we share
for each other and because of the love God has shown us by sending His son for
us.
I wish all of you a special, safe, peaceful, joyful
and merry Christmas!
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