Okay, maybe I am. But I really don't think I like Christmas. I don't think it's the "most wonderful time of the year." When I was in my twenties and even thirties, I think I enjoyed it more. The shopping, baking, wrapping, parties, etc. seemed such a diversion from everyday life. I'm old enough now and busy enough that I don't need diversions and all of these things now seem like just one more thing to do.
I feel sometimes as if I am so caught up in tasks that I don't stop to live in the moment. While at one party, I'm looking ahead to the next. (And if you read my last blog, you know how I love parties). Finding one perfect gift, while feeling like a great accomplishment, doesn't mitigate the fact that there are still more gifts to find.
So what did I like about it this year?
Madison, Madison, Madison. She has a new thing that she does that just melts my heart. When she sees something wonderful, she opens her eyes wide, purses her little lips, and says in the sweetest voice, "Ohhhhhhhh."
Laurie, Nephi & Shandie home from out of state. In fact the whole family together is such a blessing. I see the gift of time together as a family and the most precious gift ever.
Watching all of my family interact. Sometimes it's just fun to watch them enjoy each other.
The moment when Nephi gave Clayton the replica leg lamp from "A Christmas Story." He had marked "fragile" on the outside of the box and Shandie filled it with shredded paper so it looked like excelsior. Clayton's look was priceless when he pulled that leg out of the box.
Cuddling with Niel in the morning. He was most extravagant and thoughtful showering me with gifts. I'm most spoiled today.
And I have the opportunity to build up the Kingdom of God on the Earth. The ultimate preparation for Christmas!
Stocking Candy Cookies
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4 comments:
The Christmas Story lamp is hilarious! I love that idea.
Oh by the way...I think that if you delete my blog from your list and then enter it again it will put me at the bottom of the list and not say the last time I posted was 4 weeks ago. Definitely not the case. Just so you know.
mom, I think you want to be a scrooge and a party pooper, but deep down you love Christmas and a good party. maybe you just haven't been to enough good parties!
Looks like the kids have checked in! The first thing I got, my deep friend... is that I Got your frustration! But you came to the point. Christmas is not for the adult. Never has been. Chistmas is for the kids... for the kid we were, for the kids we have now...
and for the kid inside of each of us! It is the holiday to celebrate the greatest "KID" of all... when He was a kid!
Adults have forgotten how to remember "the 'kid-dom' of God! We have layered our lives with responsibility and chores... and forgotten what it was like to play!
"Madison, Madison, Madison..." the most recent addition to your family... fresh from that Kingdom!That's when it came alive for you!
As adults, we need Christmas... if only to help us touch once again, that eternal 'child' within each of us...
for it is the little child that will lead us back to God.
For the little child within us has never forgotten that we have never left God... we only think we have.
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