It’s Christmas time…

…mistletoe and wine, children singing Christian rhymes, with logs on the fire and gifts on the tree, it’s time to rejoice in the good that we see.

I know it’s a Cliff Richard song! One I learnt many years ago, to sing as entertainment at a family Christmas with my siblings in fact. It was a ’suitable’ pop song in the eyes of my parents. But that’s not the point of this post. No. The point is that this year I’m celebrating with my new family, enter stage right The Man, The Boy, and The Dog.

Yesterday I brewed up some mulled wine, and we decorated the Christmas tree to the sounds of Carols from Kings. Today we’re having a roast turkey Sunday lunch, a sort of dress rehearsal Christmas Dinner, and tomorrow I’m wearing Christmas wreath earrings to work.

Christmas has arrived in my life.

I had been feeling rather ‘un-Christmassy’, and was even objecting to the two Christmas cards I’ve already received (some people are too organised!), but, once the trip to Edinburgh was cancelled, I was a new woman: a woman ready to brave Cheltenham town centre on a Saturday (about ten minutes in fact, but that’s a record for me); a woman ready to book the London Eye mulled wine flight; a woman ready to, well ready for nearly anything it has to be said, I’m relieved, released, reliving, really in love. I’m spending this Christmas with a family I love.

Hope you all are too!
Harrietdg

~ by harrietdg on December 7, 2008.