Ode to Christmas
I enjoy the holiday season; however I am not a dedicated fan. I hope I am by no means a Scrooge, but I just don't often take the time to just enjoy the season. I love seeing my friends and hanging out with the different groups. Why we always feel the need to get together one last time before Christmas I will never understand... but I love the fellowship. It makes me want to catch up with all the people that I love dearly. However I usually forget to enjoy the Christmas decoration part of things. I tend to focus on my to do list and how behind I am on everything.My mom and I put the Christmas tree up on Saturday, and I'll be honest I complained for at least half the time...my mom uses what I think to be way too many lights. I have a 5 year old's attention span. After about 20 minutes of hanging decorations I want to move on or my feet hurt so can I sit down (that never ending foot problem has its perks:) This is actually the 2nd tree I helped decorate this year. My sunday school class got roped into to decorating the tree for our church this year. I'll be honest I hardly ever pay attention to what the tree looks like at my church and was a little surprised by the over use of naked baby jesus angelly ornaments (we never could decided what they were suppose to be:) However this year I am trying to pay more attention. The one in the church looks great especially nice after the music director fixed up it for us and the poinsettas were put in place. My mom and I did a pretty good job with ours also.
Last night for the first time in a long time I sat in a darkened room with only the Christmas tree on and just looked at it for at least 30 minutes. The only sounds was the soft snoring of the two little girls crashed out on the couch waiting for parents...I had babysitting duty last night. It was just well...lovely (sorry I know that sounds exceptional British but nothing else fits). It was nice to just sit, enjoy, and think about Christmas. I was too tired to focus on my to do list. I just marveled at how pretty it was and how blessed I am. Of course it probably helped that it was a tree I didn't have to decorate:) So thanks amber for letting me enjoy your tree...
posted by deanna @ 10:41 AM
1 Comments:
Ach, what's wrong with sounding British?!
And 20 minutes to decorate a tree?! I guess it must be bigger than ours - my mum hates doing it so left it to me and I did it in under 10 ... went for simple and stylish or something like that!
I loved reading your blessings post too. So many people don't recognise their blessings!
Happy New Year 2009!
Hilary
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