Christmas is a-sneakin'...
Next week is Christmas. The season brings with it a host of emotions! It is cold, cold, cold in Davis (it SNOWED here yesterday morning!), but our house is toasty warm and the Christmas tree is really cute. Gotta love the smell of fresh fir (definitely better than the smell of fresh fur?!?) I am thoroughly enjoying reading Christmas letters and getting to see updated pictures of friends (or, if they have them, their children as photographic substitutes!) as Christmas cards arrive. The church Christmas celebration last week, of which I was the narrator, was really fun. All this is good.
But it's another season where the miles away from family seem longer than usual. And I don't like Christmas shopping, especially since most of it is an alone-among-the-masses experience, which only serves to make one feel lonelier. And I had my fill of Christmas music on the radio on the first day after Thanksgiving... and 21 days later it's still going strong. And my child continues to wake up at 5:30am every day - which makes for long, long days at home (it's too cold to spend much time outdoors) with relatively few play-dates, since it's the 'holidays' and it seems everyone is busy.
So I guess I need to get busier too. Stop moping and do some more planning. Employ some cinnamon scents and perhaps write a Christmas newsletter of my own. That would be good too :-) Time to remember the joy of the season: A God who closed the gap between us by coming to earth himself. That is certainly a spirit-lifter, if I ever heard one.
But it's another season where the miles away from family seem longer than usual. And I don't like Christmas shopping, especially since most of it is an alone-among-the-masses experience, which only serves to make one feel lonelier. And I had my fill of Christmas music on the radio on the first day after Thanksgiving... and 21 days later it's still going strong. And my child continues to wake up at 5:30am every day - which makes for long, long days at home (it's too cold to spend much time outdoors) with relatively few play-dates, since it's the 'holidays' and it seems everyone is busy.
So I guess I need to get busier too. Stop moping and do some more planning. Employ some cinnamon scents and perhaps write a Christmas newsletter of my own. That would be good too :-) Time to remember the joy of the season: A God who closed the gap between us by coming to earth himself. That is certainly a spirit-lifter, if I ever heard one.
posted by Bronwyn at 5:05 pm
1 Comments:
We have a 5:00 rooster in our house, as well. We should set 5:30 AM playdates. :)
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