Grab the calendar, the red and green markers, and starting counting the days – Christmas times a comin’, Christmas times a comin’, Christmas times a comin’, It won’t be very long…..
Don’t roll your eyes and turn away quite yet – I promise I’m not skipping Thanksgiving or any other fall wonder. Fall is my favorite season. But, it’s only 86 days till!! Soon, the trees will be coming out, the decorations, the ornaments, and the nativities. It’s with the chocolate covered pretzels and Christmas music playing raucously in the background that the white lights are unwound from their box and rewound around the tree. The house starts smelling like cookies and cinnamon, pine tree candles, and vanilla. Sweetly sentimental memory laden figures come back, bringing memories of family members near and far.
But, long before all of that happens, the Christmas cards need to start. Yes – it is time for me to pull out the address book and the ink pens, and the bright colored cards. It takes time to write a note in a card, to think about someone for a few moments, to pause over a blank card and think about the recipient. Then, pen to paper, ink flowing and the words spill out. Words of hope, words of season joy that I really would like to keep in my heart all year long, words of family, and words of memory.
Yes, just 86 days till – it’s time to get the cards started, time to start planning ahead…. Oh well, maybe I’ll wait a few more weeks…..
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