Dear December: Day 1

Dear December,

Welcome back!  It's time to dust off this old blog and bring it back for another Christmas countdown.  I know, I know, at this point I might as well just use some other form of social media since I've all but left this one behind.  But the truth is that late at night, when everyone else is sleeping I visit this old thing and remember how charmed our lives have been for the last eight years.  I just can't say goodbye yet.

Somehow, we are facing the end of another year, but first Christmas!  December, on your first day you brought excitement to my children that only an idyllic picture on the front of a Christmas card could.  The kind where snow gently kisses the branches of evergreen trees and the warm glow of a fire lights tiny houses.  The kind where cookies don't cause you to gain pounds and children are always nestled snug in their beds never fighting bedtime one bit.

I'm glad your back. I have been trying to create traditions  and memories for my darlings for years now, but this year I hear them taking ownership of our traditions. Ready to hang those stockings just where we do every year.  Gently reminding each other that the handless wise man goes on the other side of the Nativity shepherd, and be careful with that that camel, remember what Coop did to the head last year.

No one ever told me how fast all this would go, a sentiment that I've said a million times before.  Tonight my little girls sat together in bed and told stories of Santa and everything they loved about Christmas. When they weren't looking I wipe a tear from my eye and wished so hard that I could freeze time.

I'm happy you're back December,  your memories are some of my favorites.

Grace and Peace