There isn't a day that goes by where trends of Christmas linger near. Candycanes, chocolate, cookies, presents, bows, wreaths, pine cones, mistletoes, doves, fudge, grandmas hot cocoa, grandpas snores and double chin. Even in the middle of the summer I can smell or taste Christmas in my nose and on my tongue. I wonder if the elves and Santa have something to do with that since they are working all year around. Snow comes when it wants to come and the seasons change ready or not.
Living with elderly parents isn't easy to deny, and what I mean is that personally I want to stay young forever and want my parents to stay young to forever as I remember them to be when I was in my late teens and early twenties. These years are pivotal for anyone while graduating high school, applying for jobs, or getting married, having a baby, or all of the above during this age range seemed to be the acception.
The older the parents are the harder it is to adapt the sensitivity that we will all getting older. There is a Christmas spell of being younger when your older you feel it more and Christmas makes everyone feel so full of joy and youth starting in the morning. This is the time of year when everyone will feel as an infant feels which is that everything around them is brand new and the glow on their faces light up bright to see everything for their first time and this is what the reason for the season brings to us all that sweet child like love for life.
There isn't a day that goes by where trends of Christmas linger oh so dear and oh so near! The idea and the day comes to us all around the world as we find it charming and difficult to manage and be a part of letting go all that matters, problems, and self. I experienced it last year in a nut shell was my first year of my sons life on earth and the first year of his very celebrated arrival! We all were very happy.
Then I was learning what I have always wanted wasn't what I always wanted when I meant to have a little family I meant to be together on Christmas and so many other little technical difficulties are coming to light while this year will be different, my son will be one and my eyes are more open than last years split up of my little family. All I remember is strangers from my sisters in laws were all over the house, and those I wanted oh so near were oh so far away. Welcome to life. What blessing I have from my son who has brought me 4 grandparents healthy and kind who have taken over the mommy business when things were rough.
That's all I can really write about since the greatness of Christmas is a world wide wonder that should be celebrated all year around, and yet it isn't its call other names, and isn't celebrated on the same days etc. So even in the middle of the summer lingers aromas and tastes of Christmas and I wonder always if this is what everyone is talking about that peace and good will bring. Having parents who are getting older is a phenomenon no one can be ready for so I giggle when my dad drops his hearing aid, or leaves his heart monitor in the bathroom and the baby can swallow it or throw it in the garbage. I can't help but to yelp first then feel the urge to slow down and thank God for all i have before I get that old if I am blessed to live that long, my dad is 60 something...and I feel blessed that we are still in touch, and have faith that all our dreams will come true.
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