Christmas dinner table
Sunday, December 27, 2009
What made it my best Christmas in years?
Let's see---
I live about a 12 minute drive from my folks' home and my family home. I really wanted to sleep over on Christmas eve but IM A BIG GIRL! Or at least on my way to being one so I SHOULDN'T right? Well I don't know the answer to that, but I do know I did sleep over. Not only the 24th but the 23rd, 24th, 25th AND 26th! Why so many nights? My roommate went back to her family home for all those nights and I didn't want to be alone around Christmas... and... I really wanted to spend time with my family! Yes, that much time.
So 23rd my 2 brothers and I finished up our gifts for our grandparents... we made almond bark and tea (pretty cool eh?!). On 24th hung around... went on a run... and did Christmas eve at my Aunt's. It was great! First year Christmas eve at her house and it was really beautiful because she was really excited to have it at her house- where it was always at my Grandma's but she's a bit too old now to host it. I sat beside my 91 year old grandpa and we laughed all night long together! Everyone was in such a delightful and joyful mood. 25th I got to wake up my 2 brothers in the morning because, well- SANTA HAD BEEN! We spent 3 hours opening gifts. Not because we have a lot of gifts but because we were all chatting and explaining why we got this for this person- why it made us think of them! We all took turns opening and exchanging love! It was so beautiful! I cried more than once. It is truly such a gift when people see you for who you are and they almost know what makes your heartbeat! ...tear...
Later my mum's folks came over to exchange gifts and laughs... and then more people for dinner. We had 18 people at our dinner table! I love the large ones! We hadn't had one this big in years. We have our family family which is about...11 and then others that we are lucky enough to "adopt" for the evening! Again- so much joy and laughter. It seemed that everyone was just super excited to spend time together. I sat beside my cousin who just finished his first semester at university so I got all the gossip!
I hope this season has been as beautiful for you as it was for me. My heart was so full of love and joy I thought it might burst! This was one to go down in the books for sure- with huge gratitude. I find it exciting also because I believe firmly in the law of attraction and what you put out you receive. And so I am also in huge gratitude that what is being reflected back to me is something of a beautiful and loving exchange of people for people! Truly magical! That is what this season is about for me anyways! I really didn't even care about the gifts at all- except that it is kind of fun to see what the other person chose to represent you to them! It was a joy to laugh and chat and listen to so many beautiful people in their sharing of each other in life!
With Love and Respect to you all!
I live about a 12 minute drive from my folks' home and my family home. I really wanted to sleep over on Christmas eve but IM A BIG GIRL! Or at least on my way to being one so I SHOULDN'T right? Well I don't know the answer to that, but I do know I did sleep over. Not only the 24th but the 23rd, 24th, 25th AND 26th! Why so many nights? My roommate went back to her family home for all those nights and I didn't want to be alone around Christmas... and... I really wanted to spend time with my family! Yes, that much time.
So 23rd my 2 brothers and I finished up our gifts for our grandparents... we made almond bark and tea (pretty cool eh?!). On 24th hung around... went on a run... and did Christmas eve at my Aunt's. It was great! First year Christmas eve at her house and it was really beautiful because she was really excited to have it at her house- where it was always at my Grandma's but she's a bit too old now to host it. I sat beside my 91 year old grandpa and we laughed all night long together! Everyone was in such a delightful and joyful mood. 25th I got to wake up my 2 brothers in the morning because, well- SANTA HAD BEEN! We spent 3 hours opening gifts. Not because we have a lot of gifts but because we were all chatting and explaining why we got this for this person- why it made us think of them! We all took turns opening and exchanging love! It was so beautiful! I cried more than once. It is truly such a gift when people see you for who you are and they almost know what makes your heartbeat! ...tear...
Later my mum's folks came over to exchange gifts and laughs... and then more people for dinner. We had 18 people at our dinner table! I love the large ones! We hadn't had one this big in years. We have our family family which is about...11 and then others that we are lucky enough to "adopt" for the evening! Again- so much joy and laughter. It seemed that everyone was just super excited to spend time together. I sat beside my cousin who just finished his first semester at university so I got all the gossip!
I hope this season has been as beautiful for you as it was for me. My heart was so full of love and joy I thought it might burst! This was one to go down in the books for sure- with huge gratitude. I find it exciting also because I believe firmly in the law of attraction and what you put out you receive. And so I am also in huge gratitude that what is being reflected back to me is something of a beautiful and loving exchange of people for people! Truly magical! That is what this season is about for me anyways! I really didn't even care about the gifts at all- except that it is kind of fun to see what the other person chose to represent you to them! It was a joy to laugh and chat and listen to so many beautiful people in their sharing of each other in life!
With Love and Respect to you all!
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