The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that Saint Nickolas would soon be there.
This photo is my living room mantle, this year’s edition! I like to change things (my decorations) from year to year, don’t you?
A lot of people are anti-change, seeking the warm and familiar, especially at Christmas time…I know, because I married one of them!
This is such a busy month…lately I feel like I’m “chasing my tail,” as my grandmother would say…I always would laugh at that, now I’m starting to agree!
By the first of December, I usually have my Christmas cards and Christmas stamps ready to go, neatly stacked on the kitchen table. If it’s already snowing and below zero, they’ll have to sit and wait for a thaw and a sunny day…not too long, but a few days can’t hurt.
I like to plan a family get-together to celebrate Christmas and each other, I like to have an evening, or a dinner planned with friends for the same reason. I try to visit neighbors with a little gift, usually homemade cookies or nice chocolates, food always goes over well!
My baking hasn’t started yet….in fact, we’re lucky to have groceries…I’ve been busy planning, scheduling and confirming appointments to get some help in some home projects I’d like to complete. At this point friends, I’m not even going to talk about what I’m planning, because that takes the “pressure off”, and makes me feel like I already DID something, which is not the case.
I will show you photos and blast them all over TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and of course, Facebook! I may have to shout from the rooftops, like a Santa-moment, when my plans are actually completed!!
Friends, sometimes, the “labor shortage” begins at home.
Sad story.
The first weekend of December, we’ll be going on a “dress up” date, per my request, and a Holiday Pops Concert downtown. The first time I attended this concert, I was eight years old, and my parents took me and my grandparents, knowing I liked music. That was the first time ever! that I saw and heard a professional Orchestra and watched all of the different instruments play as one.
Is it any wonder that I also wanted to be a cellist for the Philharmonic Orchestra on that same stage?
Years later, I played with the Orchestra as a high school student on that same stage. Wow!
What do you have planned for this month?
How do you celebrate Christmas? Any special traditions that you look forward to?
Do you travel to spend time with loved ones? Or do they come to you?
What’s that saying again? all roads lead home at Christmas…boy that’s true, isn’t it?
At least for me.
Well, I’ve rambled long enough, I won’t take too much of your time. I truly do wish you a blessed and peaceful holiday season.
I believe that the human heart longs for and desires unity, to be known and cherished by another. I believe that love itself was born on the first Christmas, a gift to all.
I wish you the Peace of the Season, and true Love and Joy,
Blessings,
xx,
