Thats What I Say

Today we got our first real snow of the season. Enough of the white fluffy goodness to play in this time. I bundled up the kids and we romped around outside leaving the tell tale boot prints of everywhere we had been. I didn’t even mind shoveling the driveway and sidewalks, surely that will change as winter wears on but for now it is still fresh and new. Now it feels more like Christmas. The big day is just around the corner but the snow makes it feel more Christmasy. I love how the snow looks falling at night under the streetlamps and glistening on the railings with our garland and lights. It makes me want to listen to Christmas carols and drink hot cocoa with miniature marshmallows. As I look out the window I can still see the indentation of where my daughter giggled in the snow drift making snow angels. Wearing her pink snow pants with matching puffy pink coat, mittens and hat she pranced through the snow looking like a little sweet gumdrop. I savor every moment of this season, of this time with my kids. Not every Christmas has been brimming with joy and I know that not every Christmas will be. I guess that is why I want to remember every moment of this magical season and make it special so my children have wonderful memories to recall when perhaps they are having a Christmas that isn’t quite what they wish it to be. It isn’t about the presents that make my favorite holiday memories stand out but rather special times with my grandparents who are passed away or the feeling of innocence and belief before I grew up and have the stresses now that all parents do. I try to keep traditions for the kids that I passed on from my childhood like the red and green construction paper chains and cutting white snowflakes out to tape to the windows. Traditions they can pass on to their children someday. Every year on Christmas Eve we read Christmas stories and bake a birthday cake for Jesus and have a birthday party for him. It seems funny to have a birthday party with cake and songs but that is what makes it more memorable for us. Tis the season. Make it special. If this is a tough year, remember the softer years the ones that were the happiest and know that if you believe, then there will be happier days to come.

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