I have newer Christmas traditions.
I am single and my only sister is in Vancouver and a long way from Ottawa where I live. My mom died 4 years ago and my dad died over 30 years ago. I have no other close relatives.
My church family has always mattered at Christmas. I spent a couple of years away after my mom died. The past two years I have been at home.
This year I will be busy at church over Christmas - helping with decorating before and for the services on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
I have a friend that I went to school with and I have connected with her again in the past few years. I will probably have Christmas dinner with her and her family. I may bring with me another friend who is on his own.
I am sending out Christmas cards to friends. I have decorated my house. I will do make some traditional family Christmas dishes. I will not make the shortbread like cookies or the sweet breakfast cake. I will make the Noel shrimp bake - green and red and to be eaten when decorating the Christmas tree. I will make the turkey stuffing with rice and spices and sausage meat. I bought the sausage some weeks ago because it is not always available at the grocery store.
At some point I will take a Christmas carrot or apple to Abracadabra the horse. She will enjoy some time off from being ridden to be out in the fields with her friends.
I miss my Christmas past but my Christmas present should be quite nice.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
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2 comments:
What a lovely post Vicki! So nice to see you finding contentment with what you've been given and can give. God is so good to us, and in this season where our society has constructed everything around family, it's lovely to see you free to find meaning where it is to be found: in relationships and service! :)
Thanks Dan!
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