Well, the holidays are gone…done! For another year, all the festivities, parties, decorations, seeing extended family and all of it, are over.
How do you feel about that? How were your holidays? Were you totally stressed? Were you pretty relaxed? Did you go away and spend time on a vacation away from family and perhaps tradition?
Saturday this weekend I finally got all the ‘stuff’ down and all of it put away. Lots of time spent decorating and then taking it down. Personally, I love seeing the tree with the various ornaments and the white lights all lit up. And every year, I use ribbon to kind of wrap the tree. It looked beautiful!
By now we all have a collection of Christmas decorations, I’m sure. If you are like I am, when the time comes to put up the stuff, your main thought is, ‘what goes up, must come down’… Hmmm!
This year I decided that it is wonderful to have the house decorated for Christmas, and it’s o.k. not to put out every single thing I have ever collected in my decorations collection. It’s not even about, ‘who’s going to see it, unless we entertain?’. For me it’s about, I enjoy seeing the house look like Christmas, and it’s o.k. that some stuff stays in the basement in their containers and never gets put up. It’s really o.k. We entertained family and the house looked great.
One thing I experienced, as I sorted through what to put up or not and then as I took it all down, was remembering each item and it’s history. Most of the stuff, I’d collected years ago.
Then there’s the things I’ve acquired since I’m in this current relationship/marriage. A number of things acquired as gifts/favors at business parties or ornaments I’ve bought while traveling. However, the most memorable for me now, are ornaments given me from the grandchildren I’ve acquired in this marriage. Touching and very special.
What about you? Let us hear about your thoughts about the holidays.
