I have spent the last couple of entries venting about some of the awkward, heavy and sometimes unpleasant sides of the holidays. But this morning, with the house all to myself, the oven emitting the yummy smells of cookies baking, the tree twinkling in its festive lights and the cats all lazily spread out on the couch sleeping off the wilding they did earlier, my mind begins to wonder to other holidays and all that I have to be thankful for.
On Tuesday we buried my Grandfather-In-Law. He died at the age of 98 having just recently celebrating his 71st wedding anniversary. When I stop to think of the life he lived, and the family he raised, I stop to think of how I was enveloped into this family that I am now a very proud member of and how Mitch and I could have easily been met major resistance and ridicule because of our age difference; but without a blink of an eye, my parents, his parents, our extended family and friends, all, just accepted us.
I am so blessed to have the parents I do, and so blessed to have the In-Laws that I do, but most of all, I am very blessed to have found the man who I know to be my soul-mate.
So yes, this holiday season will enviably bring trying times with the step-kids, separation from family that cannot travel, overeating and sugar comas; but it will also bring laughter and fun, delicious leftovers, awful pictures and fabulous memories! I guess that is yet more to be thankful for. That I have the family to have trying times with, that we had the money to have a great Christmas, that I do not care enough about my diet to not enjoy the overeating and sugar comas myself, and that I have the batteries, memory and camera readily available to catch all the awful/awkward pictures that will be forever a part of the memories built this Christmas.
I wish all of you a wonderful holiday season full of all the love and family drama you can handle, and that through it all, you too can see the blessings you have in your every day and especially this holiday season.
Merry Christmas!
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