For years I didn't really look forward to Christmas. It was just Ernie and I and we normally got up and traveled to either my father's or my Grandparents house on Christmas morning and if we went to my Grandparents I cooked. Now don't get me wrong I enjoyed Christmas but something always felt missing and melancholy about the holiday season for me.
As the years went by and we still had no children of our own I would try my hardest to look forward to Christmas. I searched for the joy in serving others and in finding something my husband would like. Let me tell you, that man is NOT easy to buy for! :) Anytime you ask him what he wants for Christmas or a birthday he says " I don't need anything." Do you know how frustrating this is to hear EVERY year for 15 years?!? LOL
In December 2009 that all changed. My world was turned upside down in a way that I would never change. Our beautiful Daughter was born and she has kept us busy every single day since. That first Christmas with her at home was COLD and quiet. She was 21 days old and we had a literal blizzard. We were snowed into our neighborhood. We spent Christmas day just holding her and singing chirstmas carols to her and reading Christmas books and thanking God for our tremendous blessing.
Christmas 2010 was wonderful! We got to actually buy Christmas gifts for her and watch her open them with some confusion and then excitement. My joy in the meaning of Christmas had returned that previous year and I was so excited to see Christmas coming. Of course with her birthday being 21 day's before Christmas it's a very busy month! But I was beyond excited.
Today, I find myself most certainly looking forward to celebrating Christmas with my wonderful little family. We started a new tradition last year of having Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve and allowing NikiRhe to open her gifts from her grandparents that night so they can be here to see her open them. Then on Christmas Morning we make coffee and hot cocoa and sausage balls and open presents and spend the day listening to Christmas music and playing with NikiRhe and her gifts. Also something I'm looking forward to is letting Niki help me choose a gift for her daddy, wrap it and place it under the tree. I think this will be an annual tradition. He is taking her to choose a gift for me as well and it will be fun for her as she gets older, and she will be able to choose a gift on her own soon enough.
I am looking forward to teaching her all about why we celebrate the birth of Christ and even why we celebrate it in the winter instead of around March when the birth actually happened.
Well we've got errands to run today so I'm off to get it taken care of.
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