All the baking and shopping and gathering yielded another wildly successful holiday celebration. We stuffed our faces, put on a few pounds, spent a bunch of money and indulged in family time. Quinn turned our house into the aftermath of a tornado opening and playing with every new toy. The gift wrap, boxes, bags and leftover sweets strewn around the house. The gifts were fun and appreciated and we all sat around playing with our new toys; electronic gadgets, media, books, clothes, etc.
Christmas is passed for one more year and we made it through. Phew! New Years is approaching. With the holidays comes a hustle and bustle that is amazing, unheard of, and psycho! We become these frenzied creatures trying to shop, bake and prepare for holiday parties with family, friends and co-workers. Our mere existence becomes entirely about this tradition for a time. So our lives as we know them are put on hold. Then we all sit back a few pounds heavier afterwards and say, “Wow, that was great! Glad it’s over!” Now we can resume our normal lives.
So I sit here and ponder how we lose our lives for a brief time during the holiday season enough that we actually need recovery time. Can it all actually be worth it? What dictates this devotion to the holidays? Is it obligation? Tradition? The meaning is often religious or spiritual celebration. Unfortunately, we all know that the holidays have become much more commercial and we find ourselves constantly holding up to a standard, keeping up with the Jones, make this year just as good as the last or better. God forbid we’re strapped for money and dare to consider not celebrating. It’s just not an option. But we still hold the holiday season dearly in our hearts…the welcome of the cold weather, the Christmas lights, the eggnog, the gathering of friends and family and the endless generosity. It is a warmth that envelopes us and reminds of us of many holidays in a simpler more perfect time, our childhood bringing back all the magic. So we’ll go through all the hoopla and all the haze and come out of it making more warm memories and we’ll get past it one more year to look forward to the spring until the countdown to the holidays starts once again.
Hope your holiday season was wonderful and wishing you a happy and healthy New Year!
5 comments:
Firstly, it was AWESOME spending the holidays with you guys--as always!! Thanks for that!!
I think it starts with obligation, which is necessitated by tradition. But it must be worth our while, because those traditions that are not worth our while slowly go by the wayside and are forgotten. It takes more effort to keep the magic in Christmas as adults, because we're now "the ones who put on the show" (as opposed to when we were kids and it all just magically "happened"), and we know all of the exhausting effort that goes into it.
So here's to keeping the magic in the front of our minds at Christmas!! To feel the goodness of giving and getting gifts from people we love...what a terrific thing!!
G, I LOVED spending the holidays with you too! Thank you!
You are so right! See I'm loving this blog already. You hit the nail right on the head. When we are kids, we don't realize what it takes to "put on the show".
Yes, it is a terrific thing to have the opportunity once a year to indulge in the spirit in giving and gratitude...with those we love. It is a very comforting thing.
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