Tis the season. I have spent alot of time thinking about what I am thankful for. If I would have had to write this blog the day before Thanksgiving. Not much I was way too annoyed on several different levels. Not enough sleep, work, shop, cook.
I get this way every year around the holidays and it gets worse the closer it gets to Christmas. The same old spill you get from us scrooge type personalities. For me I think I have lost that magic of the holidays. No matter how dysfunctional of a family we were growing up it was there. It is hard for me to explain it. But it felt like the holidays.
I have three children and I have really tried very hard every year. I wonder if they ever had that feeling that it is magic. You can ask anyone in my family I am a total basket case. The previous two Thanksgivings were very good though. We traveled to be with family.
So now we are here in this holdiay season. The night before Thanksgiving I had to work till midnight. When I got off I went and shopped nothing like last minute. So I get home and put things away. I make the pie and jello cups the night before so they are nice and set up for the next day. My oldest son instead of playing his game decided to help me. It was great. We had a good time and made me feel like he is taking an interest in the way we celebrate.
So after a few hours sleep I am back in the kitchen. All the children drift in and out of the kitchen while I am cooking. Each sampling something different or wanting to know how soon we will be eating. It was very relaxed. I contribute the atmosphere to not having the ex over as I have felt compelled to do in previous years. I agreed to supervise my sister's visit with her children so she could be with them. It was the eight of us.
So in that moment when we all sat at the table everyone talking and eating. I am thankful that we have each other.
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