Tomorrow my children will wake up extra early. With sleep in their eyes they will run into our bedroom both of them, pulling at my covers, saying, "Mom get up! It's Christmas!" This is in fact their best attempt at the etiquette side of "Let's open some presents!" And like the 15 years that preceded this one I will pretend to be asleep, knowing I have been waiting for that knock on the door for what feels like forever, morning breath and all. Then just like the social media-picture taking mom of the 21st century I will tell them to go brush their teeth, comb their hair, and give us twenty more minutes of sleep. They hurry out, back in about seven minutes tops and I pretend to be wrestled from my slumber. Little do they know, I love Christmas as much as they do. I love too, seeing Christmas through their innocence.
I tap my husband in his sleep and say, "I just bought you ten minutes, get up! Ten minutes that is all I can promise."
Christmas is the great equalizer. We, each us, behave better this time of year. Well most of us. There is still that occasional person jockeying in Wal-Mart for the last FROZEN video or Cabbage Patch Doll. Get in their way and you risk your next breath of survival. That aside, Merry Christmas!
I wish we could hold that Christmas spirit the other 364 days. Not the gift side but the giving side. The emotional, helpful, loving, forgiving, remembering, gentle, appreciative, tolerant, considerate, gentile, side. That would be one amazing gift. Perhaps the greatest gift of all.
Anyway, gotta run. There are gifts to be opened. Wrapping paper to be cleaned up. Bows to be recycled. Elation tears to be wiped. Hugs. Laughs. Thanks Yous. The whole nine.
But most of all there is this remembrance BORN IS THE KING! Let it not be just another Christmas holiday! Awake! A new day is born!
I tap my husband in his sleep and say, "I just bought you ten minutes, get up! Ten minutes that is all I can promise."
Christmas is the great equalizer. We, each us, behave better this time of year. Well most of us. There is still that occasional person jockeying in Wal-Mart for the last FROZEN video or Cabbage Patch Doll. Get in their way and you risk your next breath of survival. That aside, Merry Christmas!
I wish we could hold that Christmas spirit the other 364 days. Not the gift side but the giving side. The emotional, helpful, loving, forgiving, remembering, gentle, appreciative, tolerant, considerate, gentile, side. That would be one amazing gift. Perhaps the greatest gift of all.
Anyway, gotta run. There are gifts to be opened. Wrapping paper to be cleaned up. Bows to be recycled. Elation tears to be wiped. Hugs. Laughs. Thanks Yous. The whole nine.
But most of all there is this remembrance BORN IS THE KING! Let it not be just another Christmas holiday! Awake! A new day is born!
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