Time seems to get a little more slippery in December, so here we are on January 11th finally ready to blog again. There were lots of great moments over the holidays as a family of three and then enjoying a visit from my mom after Christmas. Here were some of the highlights:
- Receiving Christmas cards daily and catching up with what our friends and family have been doing. One of our favorites was a letter typed on a real, old-fashioned typewriter by Brian’s 89-year-old great aunt.
- Investing time and thought into gifts for others. It wasn’t about big-ticket items, but finding something meaningful: a custom-made name stamp for a newly-married teacher, dinner out for Brian’s sister and husband, traveling tools and toys for family friends who enjoy all kinds of trips, a box of homemade cookies for my step-Grandpa who is spending his first Christmas alone. Brian set the tone early in the season and it was great fun! And there is something so satisfying about a tidy stack of boxes all ready to be picked up by the mailman!
- Enjoying old traditions and feeling free to leave behind the ones we had outgrown.
- Seeing Ben purchase gifts from his own funds for the first time.
- Spending unstructured, chatty time with Mom.
- The whole Christmas season at our church, with particularly lovely Christmas Eve services, worshipping the One who began it all.
- And Brian’s gift(s) to me? That’s going to have to be a post unto itself. Soon
