Hello There!

It has been a few weeks now but I am back into my routine after a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday Break and I am ready to begin my blogging adventures into the month of December. It is day 4 of this glorious month and that means we are only 21 short days away from Christmas Day! Goodness I have to get to shopping!

As I think about all of the Christmas’ in my lifetime it is hard not to get nostalgic. Time has a way of making Christmas magical and sad at the same time. I think back to the wanderlust Christmas mornings I spent running into the living room to see that Santa had indeed visited. All of the traditions my parents created for me and my brother Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning. And traveling up to Oklahoma to see my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins Christmas night. It is hard to accept that at some point all of us will eventually have new traditions that fill our Christmas’. Our families will evolve and change and transitions in our life will find us in places we never expected from year to year.

This year, as I decorated my very first Christmas tree of my own, I couldn’t help but think that someday I will look back and remember my first tree here in my apartment. And all the trees that I have decorated and will eventually decorate in my life with people I love.

Christmas is a constant. Life is not. Embrace the decorations that accompany each year and phase of your life. Someday you will look back and remember these times with a smile as you tell your children’s children what Christmas used to be like.