Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas…
Posted By AmyD. on December 24, 2006
I took some time today to read through some of the posts from last December. Wow, I was writing so much better than, what the hell has happened to me? Oh, wait… the hubs brought business home, permanently. A blessing and a curse in many, many ways.
Here we are Christmas Eve. The one night a year when anything seems possible, magic and mystery can almost be tasted in the air. Old friends, family, loved ones, kids begging for just a hint at what the next morning might bring. Sugar cookies, turkey, stuffing…
The cleaning has been done, the presents wrapped, the food mostly cooked for the big Christmas dinner. Now is the time when whether or not it’s finished and every last detail is in place you have to just exhale and let it all go and fall where it may.
I love those last moments of Christmas Eve, the stockings are filled to the tip tops with care, the remnants of cookies on the plate to prove that St. Nicholas has indeed been there. Snuggled up on the couch with the love of my life knowing all three kids are in bed sleeping soundly.
The tree flickers and light bounces off the ornaments that we have collected through the years and I try to take it all in, knowing that one day, the kids won’t be snuggled in bed and won’t be waking us up at some obscene hour to open up all the Christmas surprises that have been tempting them for weeks from beneath the tree. And, maybe, just maybe, by taking a long pause to breathe it all in, I might just keep this memory alive and clear to last the rest of my life.
So, when I wish you a very Merry Christmas filled with memory-making moments, you know what I’m getting at and that I’m wishing you something sincere and heart-felt.
To all of the wonderful people out there that I read daily and care about a great deal even if we have never met face to face, I wish you a very Merry Christmas and many, many warm memory-making and memory filled moments.
Much love to you all.
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Merry Christmas!
This is what I love about you, Amy. You are funny, cynical, irreverent and I doubt that you and I agree on any political or religious issue, but then you write something as beautiful as this.
Geek And the very same to you and yours!
Granny Oh, I don’t know about all that, after all, we agree that setting yourself on fire isn’t the best way to get your point across.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Merry Christmas my friend – to all of you.
I loved my Christmas card… Thank you, and hope your Christmas is blessed and very merry!
i’m a lurker but i just wanted to pop by and say happy hollidays!
xxx s xxx
Hope Santa is extra good to each and every one of you!
Yeah, I’m already there Amy. The ages of the “children” here are 16 – 24 (about to be 17 – 24 ) and it is 3 minutes until 9 a.m. I’m about to go wake them all so that we can get this show on the road! I made them quilts for goodness sakes and have waited most of the year to give them to them! Wake up and lie under your quilt for Pete’s sake!!
Had to wake them last year too. Buncha losers.
Not really, I love ‘em.
Please take lots of pics for those of us without little ones around to enjoy with you.
Merry Christmas my friend!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. All the best to you and yours
Hope your day was joy-filled and happy. Love you!
Oh my gosh, I got the most wonderful Christmas surprise from one of “yours” – sweetheart.