Christmas Past and Future

Isn't it funny how magical and mysterious Christmas is when we are young. That month leading up it is SO exciting and you can hardly wait, but the days seem so long and that month just ticks on for ever. Finally when it does arrive, there you are, laying awake in bed, hardly able to sleep because you know in only a few hours "Santa" will have come and you will be waking up to one of the craziest most fun days of the whole year. And it was just that. So fun, so full of happy times with family.

Here we are now.... summer comes to a close in August and stores are already decorating and selling stuff for Christmas. Even in summer there are big sales for "Christmas in July", I guess just another opportunity to sell stuff they couldn't get sold after the last holiday season. So essentially they are making the season leading up to Christmas last for months. But some how still, as we get older and time speeds up we are looking down the road of those months ahead of us still expecting it to go as it once did, but we wake up the next morning to find that all of a sudden its the new year and I have to take down all my decorations and pack them up.

I know what the true meaning of the season is and have great pride in it. Jesus' birth is so great to celibate! But its weird to think that something that used to hold so much magic and mystery to us has now lost that original feeling. I still try to fully make everything out of it that I can and look forward to the day we have kids and I can make it special and magical for them. Some how through their wonderment of the holidays I will get a renewed sense of feelings past. I want to embrace and provide the ability for our kids and to explore that wonder and build on to it in their own way. I want to embrace their ability for as long as I can to make those special times of childhood every bit exciting and wonder filled.

So here is to the years past and the ones still to come. Cheers and Happy New Year!