Our Christmas tree is decorated, the exterior looks very festive, and I spent a few hours today making Christmas candles. They smell like pine trees. I still have dozens of cards to make and gift-wrapping to do, but I will complete it all in time!
Christmas Spirit
Hopefully, if I still am keeping up with this blog come next December, I will post lists of holiday gift ideas. I feel like I have a lot of ideas and I realize how hard selecting the perfect gifts is. I'm the kind of person who believes in gifting gifts and not gift cards. Though I do appreciate receiving anyone's generosity, no matter its form.
While I was nailing Christmas lights to the roof of my house, I thought about how different thing would be if my family didn't celebrate Christmas or Christmas didn't exist it all. Or if Christmas was celebrated on the same scale as a "smaller" holiday, like Easter. It's such a huge production full of obligations, but everyone involved (including me) claims to love it so much. Then I realized that it symbolizes a lot more than religious beliefs and that it gives everyone who participates a unifying goal and a common theme...for at least one month of the year. Which, to be fair, is a pretty good chunk of time for a single-day holiday.
I love Christmas and the traditions that accompany it.
(And I'm serious about the good deed advice.)
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