Plain and simple.
Love it.
The tree, Santa, cookies, the hustle and bustle, and all the music. Ahh, the music maybe most. All those familiar carols, the silly, campy jingles, and the sentimental songs.... they are all wonderful. And I cry every year. Whilst decorating the tree (fancy right) I turn on my favorite music, which these days are from my Mariah Carey holiday playlist on Pandora.
Inevitably "I'll be Home for Christmas" or "White Christmas" or some other really sentimental song will start playing and there goes the water works. It happens every year, but it's all good. Everyone could use a good cry once in a while...it clears out the pent-up emotions and always feels cathartic (SAT word) for me.
So this year, of course, is more sad in some ways because of my mom's recent passing. Holiday traditions will have to be re-worked to fit our new "normal" but that's okay. It is life going forward, as it should. This year hubby and I will be hosting the Christmas Eve family get together that had always been at my mother's house. She loved all of the pomp and circumstance of the holidays. Especially having the family all together at her home...our childhood home.
I am actually looking forward to having a house full of family, squeezing our aging buns into our smaller abode...we'll manage because being together is so much more important than resting our aching backs on all of the sofas and many chairs in my mother's living room.
Epilogue:
Okay everyone...I have been quite remiss to post on my blog for the last few weeks. Here I am actually posting my holiday entry and Christmas was over a month ago.....Yikes! So sorry dear friends. I promise to be do better for the rest of the year (and my fingers are not crossed so I really mean it!)
Both hubby and I are SO glad to have 2013 behind us and we are definitely looking forward to a great 2014.....I hope you are too.
So here's a belated champagne Happy New Year toast to you and your loved ones.
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