December 26, 2010
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ChrisTmas Blessings
Christmas 2010. we added a future son into the family. I cooked a brunch of breakfast casserole (gluten free) with fresh fruits, cookies, and juices on the table as well as a most delicious Orange cake with Orange cream cheese frosting (also gluten free). It was delicious even though the son wasn’t too happy with no turkey. and we had snow in the yard with a light new snow on christmas Eve night. I still need to work on not staying up so late for several nights in a row. I got all my presents wrapped before the 24th this year, but I didn’t get all my presents mailed before the 24th. maybe next year. … this Christmas …. so different from others. the first Christmas without a Grandmother. the first Christmas truly knowing my mother is gone from my life. the first Christmas that I didn’t cook turkey and stuffing. a different perspective about life and marriage and friends and family and the Church and my life. it isn’t about the stuff or being ‘right’ or knowing more or being the cutest/thinnest/prettiest. life is so much more. and i am hopeful that future Christmas’ will remain about each other.
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I can relate to some of what you’ve said! This is a time to focus on what life and death is all about and how to live as Christ through us. Weight and beauty and wealth, poverty and everything material in between is not top priority, but I do still struggle with feeling like I’m in a room that is filling with smoke and I want to burst out and be what/where I’m meant to be! Happy New Year as you continue on!