| on christmas | for nikki's contacts |
Christmas here in the US seemed to fly by so fast ... as usual. All holidays seem to do just that ... breeze by. Poof it comes .... then it goes ... then the year starts up again. As soon as thanksgiving's over, there's that urgent need to get things done .... putting up the tree, lights to be lit, decorations to be hung, gifts to be bought, presents to be wrapped, cards to be written and stuff to be sent out. Yet, even with a couple weeks headstart, it still takes a while to get things off the to-do list. But almost everybody is in a good mood .... extra friendly, extra cheerful and super excited. Despite the long lines, the messed up dinners, the not-so-good job at wrapping gifts. There's certainly magic in the holidays.And as soon as the long-awaited day come day comes, it goes by in a blur. It'll soon be time to take down the tree along with the lights and decorations. Everything needs to be put back into old boxes and re-stuffed back into the closet. So every year the same thing happens ... like a roller-coaster ride.
Somewhere along the ride, we get off and look around. Dizzy and breathless, we stop and try to remember christmas pasts. How this year is so much different from last year and the year before that and so on. And how this year is so much special. And we stop and pray and give thanks .... for family, for friends, and even for strangers. For good health, for a great job and for that gift/s we got. But most of all we give thanks for the memories we've created .... these precious gifts that anchor into our hearts and into our very existence . The ones we can slip into our pockets and hold on to and take out during times we need them most. And then it's Christmas all over again.
Photo: christmas day dinner/ nikki's first christmas
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