Its that time again, funny how time flys as one ages. Remember when you were a kid and the school year was forever long. Would Christmas vacation ever get here? Now the holidays seem to appear out of no where. There was a time when families lived close enough everyone could turn up at Grandma's house or Mom's. Not anymore, even before the economy went down the toilet, families were strung out like mule puke from A to Izzard. Getting to spend a holiday for just one day is out of the question. No time off, to far to drive, airfare cost too much and so on. Thats what I miss, the family, all gathered together , the smells of food wafting all over the house, the sparkle of lights inside and out.
Never mind that we shall make do with what we have. Its just that this season is the one where I use to take my mom to shop. She was legally blind and had to use a wheel chair and deaf in one ear. And she was Fun. For her to see anything I had to back off about 6 ft., hold it up and exsplain what she was looking at. She had tunnel vision. If you take a piece of paper, poke a hole thru it with a straight pin, look thru that hole with one eye, you will see what she saw. We both were poor and loved a bargain. I was young and strong and all our going was a labour of love with Mom. I knew it was a joy to her getting out as it was to me.
But everything changes. I can still see in my minds eye a huge xmas tree when I was 6. Decorated from stem to stern. My sister tells me that we opened our presents before "the morning", I do not remember that. I guess one could call this the season of remembering, the good things.
I would hope everyone to have a loving holiday.