I love EVERYTHING about Christmas with children. I love their excitement for our advent activities. I love reading Christmas books to them. I love making gingerbread houses and driving around to look at lights. I love the way R and K dance around the tree. I love the way E rushes to the mailbox to check for Christmas cards everyday (by the way, we will mail ours out next week). And I esp. love the way that they organize the children's Nativity set so that everyone, including the sheep and cows, form a circle around the baby Jesus.
December can be such a hectic month and there can be so many distractions that chase the Christmas spirit away. But I really want to stop and enjoy all of this.
I was recently talking to a friend who mentioned it will be her first Christmas without her newly married daughter. I was so embarrassed but when she told me this I just cried. I know the day will come when we have to share these babies of ours with their own families. When that day comes I promise to be supportive like my mother graciously always is. But I know when that time does come I will ache for the days when I had to keep K from taking all the ornaments down from the tree. So in spite of all Christmas's craziness, I am choosing to love every moment with these little girls of mine. This exact time when impromptu carolling echoes through our house and Santa is as real as Mommy and Daddy. I just wish I could bottle this time forever. When the Christmas chaos was just perfect.
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I would love to come see ya'all. What is the closest airport to you? I can fly to Boston and then Denver for free....
Beautifully said, Dina.
I want to be just like Dina when I grow up.
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