Well, I see I still have no followers....
So, we threw a successful Christmas party for the teachers today. Real Italtian Real fast (as they say) cheesecakes, and an adorable take home gift bag (filled with 10 hershey kisses) for everyone! They loved it. They are quite fond of the PTO this year...bribing them with lunches and expensive coffee pots will pay off!
After that I was privvy to a very special Christmas treat, a classic for all time...a 5th grade production of A Christmas Carol. It was incredibly charming. The lights were turned down in the cafeteria. Really cozy feeling watching this sweet play about such an old, inspiring -- one for the ages type -- story.
Hmmm this year there is a certain "strand" of thought that keeps wrapping itself around my mind. As I decorate the tree, get in the cabinets to make some recipe, sit down to write Christmas cards to the "ole list," attend the kids' Christmas programs I am reminded of when I did this same thing last year.
Our ornaments have morphed from balls and figures.. into "the one Erin likes", or "the one we got when Gina was born." The recipes are recalled as the one I made at Gina's first birthday party or something Erin helped me make last year.
I have finally got that sense that Mom's get. I have finally come to that place where an actual gift for me is just gravy...
(What the! Who the! What the!) No really...
These ornaments that the kids touch and twirl are finally worth way more than their weight in gold. I fianlly have that VCR in my mind that can replay a moment in time when I look at a Christmas card or hear a Christmas song.....
Layers and layers of Christmas memories make me very happy.
.....it is such a Wonderful Life.
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