Merry Christmas to everyone! This has been a busy month with work and family in town and it’s all finally coming to a head. Today is the day for Christmas and Hanukkah actually occurred December 8 – December 16th this year.
With the sad and tragic events in today’s world, it forces us to sit and reflect on what we do have to be grateful for in our imperfect existence.
One of the Christmas events my husband went to involved some of his tennis clients. One older woman gave him a hand stitched snowman ornament that took my breath away and reminded me of how much things had changed.
I imagined this snow man to have taken her a minimum of 10 hours to sew, so I’d wondered how many others she had made. I wondered what she was thinking as she sewed his mouth on, as well as the beading on his hat. The newer generations spend and spend and I found it meant so much more to receive something that took a person 10 hours to create. He loved it and noticed the intricate details as well, so I wanted to post it here.
After attending the candlelight service at our church last night, we came home, shared a hot chocolate and wrapped a few presents. (The ones my husband had wrapped, he’d also taken a big black marker and written the names in huge letters across the front of the packages before I had a chance to stop him. Ugh! Not pretty! However, at least he wrapped them!
Additionally, in these times of political correctness, in which “Happy Holidays” is used in the workplace so as to de-God America and show tolerance to other religions by squashing out our own, let me be perfectly clear. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah. This is America and it is Christmastime.
-December 25, 2012
-SDS
