I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas (or whatever else it is that you celebrate) and that if you had something special on your Santa list (or whatever list), that you were thrilled upon opening your gifts.
As for me and my family, after going to church and listening to a beautiful program of word and music, we came home and had a lovely, noneventful, relaxing day. Opened a few gifts, had a fire in the fireplace all day. It was a nice day. That is, if you don't count my son being sick and in the bathroom most of the evening. Poor boy. Or man, I should say (he's almost 21 - - but I guess he'll always be my boy, my baby). But, anyway . . . that got me thinking about Christmases past. Our Christmases past. And it seems to me that being sick on Christmas is something of a family tradition for us. Last year, I was in the emergency room with my daughter most of the day - kidney stone (hers, not mine). I'm not sure what my husband and sons had for dinner that day, but my daughter and I actually had a lot of fun in the ER. She wasn't in much pain, and we amused ourselves while waiting . . . and waiting . . . and waiting . . . for the doctor by making up stories about some of the other people in the ER. Plus, there was the cutest little boy outside my daughter's room who kept peeking in. And it all ended up okay.
The year before it wasn't a person but rather our kitchen that was sick. Well, we didn't really HAVE a kitchen that Christmas. A month before, right after Thanksgiving, our dishwasher broke and flooded our kitchen and part of the basement. The entire kitchen, including the floor, was gutted. Again, I don't remember what we had for dinner that Christmas day (fast food??) , but I sure have a nice kitchen now! Homeowners insurance . . . I highly recommend it!
I remember my husband being sick one Christmas, me being sick another one. . . But it's never deterred us from having a good Christmas spirit in our home. From remembering the "reason for the season" (that's for you, Mark). Because it's not what you have, or where you live, or what kind of health you are in that makes Christmas what it is. And for that I am grateful!
Happy day after Christmas. Time to start thinking about all those goals and resolutions now!
Random thoughts of a girl who used to try to fit in the box. Then I realized that boxes are stupid. Except this box, the one above. It's really pretty.
Our family of four passed on a stomach bug to all of our extended family (who then passed it on to in-laws and friends) a few Christmas' ago....every Christmas Eve we still talk about that Christmas of Sickness and how it domino-ed everyone we came into contact with. This year, nothing worse than a cough came out of us, the typhoid Marys of our family!
ReplyDeleteSorry for your sonny boy - last year our sonny boy was sick on Christmas (terrible cold - all he could was sleep). Come to think of it, his very first Christmas he was very sick too. We were in the ER with him on Christmas Eve.....
ReplyDeleteIt is a tough time of year not to encounter illness - wash those hands fifty million times a day (especially when you work in a school and you, like me, often put on a nurse hat for kids who are not feeling well). It's a wonder I don't spend the winter being sick....
We've had our share of Christmas sickness. IT's never fun, tho it sounds like you and your daughter made it bearable.
ReplyDeleteI hope your son is feeling better and no one else gets sick. We had a nice Christmas. We even had some snow last night.
ReplyDeleteI can think of many better traditions for the holiday season .. last year my husband spent a lot of time in the hospital ED .. we are very happy not to repeat
ReplyDeleteI mentioned this elsewhere, but we were all fairly okay Christmas Day and got the stomach bug the day after and into today. I'm trying to look at the bright side and consider it a six-day weekend.
ReplyDeleteChristmas happened in spite of my being down with this Tonsilectomy thing. I enjoyed the meeting too, although it was so hard for me to Not be able to sing. Later half my family came for Christmas Dinner made by DAD. It was great to just be with my family and having them come meant so much to me. Hoping to feel better by New Year's...
ReplyDeleteFor a guy who likes to have his way with words, I was delighted to have received not only a new dictionary (bucket sets and four on the floor) but also a new thesaurus. As the portly gentleman in "A Christmas Carol" said to Ebenezer, "I don't know what to say about such munificence."
ReplyDeleteMary - hope you're feeling better! And if dad made Christmas dinner this year, maybe you should be "sick" again next year!
ReplyDeleteMark - I think I'll have to go look up munificence in my dictionary!
You have a lovely blog and am so glad to have found you over on WOWH- Just laughed out loud at this post. I know your Christmas - our list sounds a bit like yours. Here's to the New Year!
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