The Bylands Deck the Halls Part 2
Dear James, how my Christmas is complete with you. Your voice was made for my Christmas Eve.
Do you put baby Jesus out in the manger before Christmas Eve? I snuck him out there a few days early this year so I could take these pictures. And he’s been a newborn little one wrapped in swaddling clothes ever since. I think I may have him make a premature appearance every year here on out.
It’s been a silly little Christmas season, hasn’t it? Short, busy, a little bit of the same and some changes thrown in there, too. I’m heading to work for what will hopefully be just a few hours to tie up lose ends and then picking up the motherload of all motherloads of dry cleaning. I’ll bake some cookies because I’ve yet to bake cookies for us, it’s been a year of giving so far. And then we’ll be heading out to one of those Italian feasts and lots of wine dinners with my brother and his girlfriend. A quiet Christmas Eve. The father is in Germany and the mother and sister are in Michigan. We’re all scattered about, but that’s okay.
You know why? Because it’s a season, isn’t it, Christmas? We’ve been celebrating our Christmas for weeks and we’ll be celebrating up until that ball drops in a week. I hope that you have a merry little Christmas this year, wherever you are and whomever you are with. I hope you get a chance to watch some Charlie Brown Christmas or some Little Women or some It’s a Wonderful Life, or whatever Christmas movie it is that you can’t go without year after year. Those are just mine.
One of our friends is really hoping her husband gets her a puppy for Christmas. I know another friend is hoping for a particular piece of jewelry. And then we have friends who are hoping that their place gets rented out soon. Others are hoping for a baby. Quite a few are just hoping for something new, bright and shiny. Whatever your Christmas wishes for under that tree, I hope that more than that, more than those things, that you get to spend some time with the ones you love. In big groups or tiny groups. However the dice rolled this year, it’s about that time to be ending 2013 on a happy note. So let’s end it right there.
Happy Christmas Eve, my friends.
