Love, coming down, Love comes in all sizes!
Love, true love is not reciprocal. It is given freely and without thought. It is given to family, loved ones, our children, and our animals, simply because they need love. In small hugs, in long huge hugs along with kisses, in pretty packages wrapped up with bows, and sometimes in secret. In our culture, we are taught to put beauty and love together. Maybe here we won’t but occasionally we will because Love comes in all sizes! itscarriei.com
When Christmas is over and all of the pretty lights are turned off there comes a time when we have to take it all down, right? This year I actually thought what if? What if I just kept it up all year and then of course I didn’t. My wonderful, neighbors came over and helped us take it down. Not quite so painful that way. Singing carols, laughing, Dogs running in and out, JD making morning cocktails, listening to old tunes. Literally hundreds, possibly thousands, of ornaments on a 12foot Christmas tree.
Outcomes the ladder, crash, pop, smash, several casualties this year, as there are every year. Slowly but surely the glass balls are disappearing one by one. The Cloisonne and the Lennox are carefully wrapped one by one in a special box just for them, the gorgeous balls with heavy crackled enamel, the tiny nutcrackers, the ones that were Grammas, we wrap those in fine tissue, the little bears and moose, lots of those, just because and beautiful glass tear drops too.
Another year celebrated with new memories to cherish. I now have decorations from the tree sitting on the dining room table ready to be wrapped up. It will most likely take me a week or two to wrap it all up carefully and put it away until next year. The (6) Santas, two we love on, four to display, the sweet Reindeer, and all of the adorable Elves of every size with their cute china doll faces to peek out from here and there, the garland from the balustrade and entrance and elegant wreaths from the front doors too. It takes me a month to decorate and two weeks to take it all down.
Someone asked me the other day if it was worth it. What a silly question, of course it is! Christmas is a time to reflect, to celebrate, to give a flourish in every little corner, to remember why we are here, to give generously to those less fortunate, to sing and dance in the foyer and remember those who have gone before us. So with every ornament hung, I say a little prayer, I give thanks for the blessings in my life, for each adorable Santa face I think of my Momma, my Daddy, my Grandparents and every Christmas dinner they so lovingly made for us. For every loving friendship old and the new. Thank you Christmas, I still believe in you!
