tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post82921359426238233..comments2024-02-27T12:41:35.811-08:00Comments on Coming to Terms...: Christmas MusingsLisa :-]http://www.blogger.com/profile/02237889098638895390noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post-91594708930029585312016-12-26T21:44:14.637-08:002016-12-26T21:44:14.637-08:00Oh, Lisa, this post resonates with me. I have alwa...Oh, Lisa, this post resonates with me. I have always loved Christmas, and always enjoyed spending hours making it the best I could possibly make it for family and friends. But now my kids are grown and gone. My sons (who are 31) still love coming home for Christmas (although only the one who lives here is able to do that), but my firstborn lives in VA, and my daughter who lives here is very ambivalent about all holidays, including Christmas. We still exchange gifts, but my adult children of course have lives of their own, and the 2 who live here come over for a few hours and then they're gone, and it's just me, cleaning everything up by myself, which I find rather depressing. This year is the last time we'll celebrate Christmas in this house. After 33 years of living here, I'll put it on the market in the spring. So I put up all the decorations for one last time, because it's so beautiful, with a big tree all the way to the ceiling, sparkling with a zillion tiny white lights, and smaller trees around the house and lit garlands on the stairs. Both kids who live here said they would come over to sit with me in front of the fire one night, looking at the tree and sharing a cup of Irish coffee or a glass of wine, but that hasn't happened. They have other things to do, and I know I was the same when I was young, so I'm not faulting them. They'll be here on the 29th to open gifts, and if I cooked, they'd come back for dinner on the 30th (we're celebrating late because Chris, who's a paramedic, had to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day). But I've decided I'm not cooking this year. I always made Julia Child's beef bourguignon. Everyone loves it, but it's a lot of work, and no one has the time or inclination to come over to help, or even to sit in the kitchen and have a glass of wine with me while I cook. I've been doing this since I got married, so since I was 24, and now I'm 67, and I've decided it's someone else's turn. If no one steps up to the plate (no pun intended) then we just won't get together on the 30th. And in early January, like you, I'll be packing away all the Christmas decorations, with no idea of when or where or if I'll unpack them again.emmapeelDallashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05045502725282481075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post-86647292092754541392016-12-07T10:14:45.076-08:002016-12-07T10:14:45.076-08:00How about a virtual Christmas party? Yeah kind of ...How about a virtual Christmas party? Yeah kind of hard to send the punch through the broadband but we to be able to come up with SOMETHING. JACKIEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11883028058826030899noreply@blogger.com