Currier and Ives? Sometimes the REAL thing is even better!

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“It’ll nearly be like a picture print by Currier and Ives…These wonderful things are the things we remember all through our lives”

Well its Christmas night and I, for one, am glad! Not that this holiday season wasn’t wonderful- it actually was! We hung out here in Lakeland, just us three, and had a such a great time: Christmas Eve was spent bike riding to the park, Christmas Eve candle lighting service, and dessert at Harry’s downtown with lights at Munn Park to finish off the day. Christmas day was warm (literally, that oven gives off some HEAT!), and though the weather outside was FRIGHTFUL (thunderstorms, warm rainy, muggy central FL Christmas) we bunkered inside and opened gifts, watched U2 videos (which turned out to be pretty worshipful to me!), cooked ALLLLL day long, and sat ourselves down to an absolute feast. Later we had coffee and Sirop Gateau. We played with Lil’ E’s new toys and watched Christmas movies.

I look forward to this time of year, I don’t dread it or get through it like some. Even when the reality of traffic and long lines at the mall hit, or just when I think that I have allowed the ideals of that Currier and Ives/Norman Rockwell/Hallmark holiday to rob me of the joy of my experiences, sure enough I go to bed Christmas day with no regrets. This year was truly one of the best ones yet.

Still, as it comes to an end, I don’t feel the need to linger. I put Lil’ E’s plaid Christmas pj’s in the dirty clothes today and realized he won’t ever wear them again- that was a strange feeling. To see the fleeting season through the growth of a child did make me sad to see Christmas be gone already, but I just begin to think ahead to the cold fronts, Valentine’s Day, celebrating my birthday with R & R next door, Springtime/Easter, you get the picture. Life is cyclical. But each cycle looks a little different from the last. And so we move on.

I may not get the chance to blog in the next few days, I have work to catch up on and a little boy I like to play with needs my attention otherwise so we’ll get back on schedule after the New Year, deal?