Christmas decorations. Everywhere. In malls, at home, in trees on the street, at the local coffee shop. Trees and glitter, and presents and Christmas-y things. The red Christmas cups at Starbucks, filled with special Christmas-y drinks!
Family. Family. Family. Friends included in Family. Especially My Children, and my brother on Christmas morning!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE
I really love listening to Christmas music. I also really love to SING Christmas songs, just saying. I can bring the Christmas tunes. Especially when I am cleaning the bathroom. Showers are acoustic wonderlands. And of course along these lines, one of my most important and exciting Christmas Traditions Singing at The Lodge. I love performing there year after year. I love how much my Grandmother loves it. I love sharing that moment with her.
Christmas movies. My favorites are White Christmas, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, It’s a Wonderful Life, and pretty much all other Christmas movies. Even ones involving Tim Allen. The cool Christmas-y stuff negates the Tim Allen-ness.
The Christmas Story, The Birth of Christ, it gets lost in the many other aspects of the season, or so we think, but, not really. The feeling is there, in the precious memories we make with our families, the spirit is there in the tender moments shared with the ones we love most, and the ones we don’t know at all. In the giving, and the receiving, in the sharing of joy and of pain. In the time spent cherishing all we have after a wave of grief and acknowledgement of those who have less. In all our kind words, and unselfish gestures, in the love we share, it is there.
