Snow has been piled up on the sides of driveways, breath has been released in puffs of chilly, visible air, scarves have been knitted, cookies have been baked, and holiday secrets have already slipped from the lips of clueless children. Teens are franticly exclaiming over their bad gift shopping skills and their lack of money. "It's A Wonderful Life" and "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer" are being watched with dedicated excitement.
Guess what? It's Christmas time! :) December the 25th is bouncing merrily in the very near future, and meanwhile, we get to have the fun of preparing for it. After all, the preparation is the best part, right? Advent calendars tick down the days, but the focus is on the fun of doing the calendar, not the last day.
I love the Christmas season for another reason too: things that sit around collecting dust the rest of the year are used enthusiastically at this time. The Christmas tree (that is, if you have a fake one like we do), the ornaments for the tree, the special Christmas books, the light-up reindeer, the cookie cutters shaped like the Abominable Snowman, and even the jolly old people who pretend to be Santa at the mall. And the Nativity scenes set up on front yards and in front of churches, to remind everyone just what Christmas is all about.
Sigh. Christmas time is just… lovely. And to leave this post…
“Have a holly, jolly Christmas… and in case you didn’t hear, oh by golly have a holly, jolly Christmas this year.”
About the teens with low funds...what an accurate statement!
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