Hello holidays, back so soon?
Posted in Holidays, Random on 11/09/2009 09:00 pm by Rachael
You are, aren’t you? Sneaky little holiday season you.
Well I am ready for you so bring it.
Bring on the Christmas music weeks before we have our Thankful Feast cause I’m listening!
Go ahead retail, woo me with your holiday cheer and door buster sales. I love it!
Go on neighbor, put up those lights so I can arrive home to some twinkling happiness.
Holiday food you say? Yes please, and seconds. Weight Watchers will forgive me.
Stress can’t hold me down!. We will buy what we can afford and make up the rest in quality family time, joy, and appreciation.
On this Thanksgiving, I have much to be thankful for, and thankful is exactly what I am. This is what I am choosing this holiday season–to count my blessings and to teach my kids to do the same.
Could we use a new mattress? Yes, desperately so. But we have a warm bed to sleep in and I am grateful for it.
Do we need new windows? Someday, but the view out of our current ones is filled with beautiful houses with neighbors to match.
How about new clothes? I have lost 26 pounds thank-you-very-much which has greatly expanded my wardrobe. I am quite thankful for that!
Toys you say? My basement (and living room, and bedrooms, and car, you name it) is covered in them. More toys the kids do not need.
This leaves room for the good stuff. For appreciation of family and all of the little things that warm our hearts.
Like driving around and enjoying all of the lights.
Or having hot chocolate after dinner with a family movie.
Watching my kids fall in love with Ralphie and his red ryder BB gun just like I did.
And teaching our kids that holidays are about celebrating the love that a family can create.
I do not care if this year ended without presents. I am truly grateful for the people in my life and am content to just celebrate our humanity, our successes, and our contributions to one another.
And no worries, the kids will also celebrate the wonder and excitement of unwrapping their presents–while mom and dad sit back and smile at our beautiful corner of the world.
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