Well kiddies, another Christmas has come and gone. Gifts were given, time with loved ones shared, laughter, joy, happiness, kindness and care have been abundant! It seems that it is the one time of the year that we put aside whatever ill will we have and remember what is truly important in life.
What was it like for me, you may ask ? Due to my job, I was unable to be with my family for Christmas but shed no tears for me! Vacations are dolled out on a seniority basis where I work and it just so happened that I was able to take my vacation during the first half of December. I went home and spent some time with my Mom and my brother( love ya Jon) in Idaho. We made this time our Thanksgiving and Christmas. I had a great time with my family and it didn't matter that it wasn't exactly Thanksgiving or Christmas. All that mattered was that I was able to spend time with them and that the same feeling was in the air. The tree was up, carols were being played and love, laughter, joy, story telling and happiness were abundant. My Mom has always said that we can celebrate these holidays at any time we want. As always Mom is right!!!! Love you Mom!
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that we can and should be able to have the spirit of these holidays with us year round. Thanksgiving and Christmas may be a date on a calender but the meaning of both are so much larger than that. Being grateful and the spirit of giving, love, joy and sense of good will is something that we should carry with us all year and for that matter, throughout life. It is an model for our consideration, for us to look at and to see in it the things that we should strive to be each and every day. Should we only love or be kind to each other one day a year? Of course not! WE should be taking the spirit of Thanksgiving and Christmas with us through each and every day. Even if you are not religious, there are important lessons to be learned and what you learn can be applied to your every day life.
So, what did I do for Christmas and Thanksgiving? I am lucky enough to have great friends! Tim and Angela as well as Makenzie and Alexis( their daughters) and the rest of the family have, kind of, adopted me!lol. They are my extended and adopted family and I love them soooo much! Every year that I can't make it home, they always have me over to their house for the Holidays. We eat, laugh, tease, laugh some more, eat some more.....all I can say is that they add so much happiness to my life and I can't imagine not having them in my life. So.. a special shout out to them for being my friends/ family and inviting me to share in the spirit of the holidays with them. I had a great time and love you all. But wait... I'm not the only one they shared their home with. Our friend Steve, oh ,cooker of the bird, and his daughter were also invited( Turkey was awesome Steve). I guess, even though none of us are all that religious, that the spirit of Christmas was bountiful yesterday and it was as it should be!
Well, that wraps it up for me! Just remember peeps..... it is the spirit that counts, not the day on some calender. So lets make a New Years resolution together, shall we? Lets agree to a resolution that from this point on we take the spirit of these two holidays forward into 2011 and maybe, just maybe, this coming year will be better than the last because of it.
Until next time, anti-rant on......
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