Christmas Memories
There is always a lot of hype and expectancy of creating that “perfect family Christmas”. We all rush about trying to make family memories that will last a lifetime. Those magical, relaxing, and peaceful images flood our minds and we have this renewed hope and determination each year to achieve them for ourselves with our families. This year was no different at our house. Out came the Christmas tree to be assembled. The image of three teenage boys filled with cooperation, joyfulness, excitement, and dedication to the task of putting up the Christmas tree flooded my mind and warmed my heart. There sat the tree in the box one day, two days, three days, four!! Finally with a little less than Christmas spirit persuasion, I managed to gather the boys together to complete the task. There was a lot of reclined supervisors, lasooing of each other with stringed lights, and competition on whose baby picture ornaments would take prominence in the tree- anything but a Hallmark moment!! I sat that night in an exhausted daze gazing at the beauty of our tree and what it had required to get it done. I wondered how that “perfect Christmas” always seems to evade our house yet anyone peering through the windows of our home would see a different image of beauty and perfection. I’ve decided that there are a lot of families creating Christmas memories like ours. In fact it is these kind of memories that become the family cornerstone stories we all remember and love to share again and again for years to come. So if you peer into our house this Christmas and it looks perfect from the outside looking in, know that it’s not, and that’s perfectly ok. We are all trying to do our best and that’s what the best memories are made of. Just think… pretty soon it will be time to take down the Christmas tree and another opportunity to create more family memories. I can’t wait!!!
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