As
I write, it is lightly snowing with five inches already down and the trees
dressed in their holiday finest. In
addition to shoveling and plowing, it looks like we'll be cleaning off the
travel trailer for the second time within a few weeks. But a White
Christmas is always on our daughter’s Christmas list and this year she certainly
won’t be disappointed.
I’m thinking about my Mom
this morning who passed three days before Christmas a number of years ago. Her name is Angeline and an angel will always
top our Christmas tree in her memory.
While Christmas is the most important holiday
of the year to me due to the real reason for the season, it was my Mom who made
it the most magical of holidays. She
would haul out box after box of holiday decorations (including red and green
tablecloths and runners that she had sewn herself), bake dozens and dozens of
Christmas cookies (with my “help”, of course!) and cook not only a mid-day
Christmas dinner for our immediate family (poor Dad got stuck at home basting
the turkey while we celebrated Christmas Mass at St. Joseph’s), but also create a
spread worthy of any restaurant in town for her large, extended Italian
family to be served Christmas night. (I am very fortunate in that I
have dozens of cousins!) My Mom put her
heart and soul into anything family-related because family was always the most
important priority in her life. I can
only remember a few Christmas gifts from my childhood, but I can remember so
many things my Mom did to make the holidays extraordinary ones for my brother
and me and then, later, for his kids and mine.
I truly hope that all of you are blessed with one or more angels in your
life. If you are, be sure to thank them
for the kindnesses they’ve bestowed upon you and the warm love they’ve brought
to your life. During this holy season, may
you all enjoy happy, magical moments with your friends and family members as
well as quiet and peace-filled moments in which to reflect, with gratitude,
upon the blessings in your life. Merry
Christmas!
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