“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” - Norman Vincent Peale
I never associated Christmas with peaceful, soft, or beautiful growing up. It was exhausting, stressful, and busy; but still exiting and enjoyable. We put up the tree, bought and wrapped presents, put up the lights, decorated, unwrapped presents, went visiting all in the same week. Christmas day we were all together and Boxing Day I saw my cousins, uncles and aunts at a get together at my grandparents. Although I loved Christmas Day and seeing everyone on Boxing Day the stress of getting everything ready for Christmas had everyone exhausted before it even began. Because of this I looked forward to Christmas but at the same time dreaded it. Once I was married, we decorated the first day we both had off in December. That was the first Christmas I really enjoyed. We had our presents done in early December and listening to Christmas music while wrapping presents really helped to bring on the Christmas mood. I even baked for Christmas that year. We had fun at Mom and Dad’s on Christmas Day and enjoyed Boxing Day as well. Ever since, we were prepared early and had a peaceful and enjoyable holiday season … until this year. We still hope to have a peaceful and enjoyable holiday season, but we are a little behind in the holiday preparations. We are decorating next week either on Thursday or Friday. It’s still the first week of December so we still have time to be ready so we can relax during the holidays.
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