My house looks like a big party went down, the blessing of lots of family members willing to come and stay awhile. But all good things do come to an end, and this is it. And someone gets to put things to rights, and that is mostly me. This morning, the first morning after everyone has left, there is tired Christmas deco, some of it just barely hanging on, fragrant pine needles that seem to […]
Crowding my coveted kitchen counter space are two seasonal candles, a headless nutcracker that needs mending, a doll’s dish full of random game pieces and dice, two cans of snow that we are afraid to reconstitute since a protective covering is mentioned in the instructions, a large stack of unopened mail and two small stocking gifts which did not find their way upstairs to be packed by my 10-year-old granddaughter. The kids’ play area is covered […]
It’s always kind of a letdown. No matter how “well” everything went, we humans are not meant for this sustained level of intensity and special-ness. Every meal, dish used (I am in the kitchen a lot), activity, and outfit, all must be different, special, festive, to commemorate the awesomeness of our Savior’s birth. And it is true that his coming is a wonderful and amazing thing. But the season never quite lives up emotionally, or […]
A handful of quietness 