julietsierra
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I lived in the Dallas area for 16 years bear and I can tell you, a green Christmas sounds REAL good while you're up here. However, the reality for those of us from the colder climates is that often (not always for those who have acclimated well, but often) around the first part of September, we start looking for grey days. Yep, those days we always wished would come to an end when we lived up here. The grey, can't tell the ground from the air cause everything mixes up kind of grey days.
On those days, I could swear that if I just got on I-30 and headed east for a mile or two, I'd be home. And it just wasn't so...
The feelings would get worse as Christmas got closer and I'd hear from all the relatives back home how they were bundled up and going shopping together, getting together at Aunt So-and-so's house, how the cousins were all playing together and on and on and on...and still, the sun would keep shining.
I, who LOVES Christmas, came to hate it as I spent the first 11 of those 16 away from my family and friends over the holidays...
And while I loved much of Texas and my time there, I can honestly say the hardest of all times was Christmas - especially when Christmas was green and sunny.
I'm one who loved it there but never acclimated.
These days, I shovel snow and laugh at the snowball fights my children and I get into. I scrape the windows on my car and jump in, wriggling my fingers and toes till the car warms up and I sing Christmas carols. My family decided to decorate the INSIDE of my house this year all in lights - so much so that I swear, I should be singing Viva Las Vegas - and we laugh all night long. I'm leaving in a bit to go to my sister's for the holiday - we celebrate on Christmas Eve (she was at my house for Thanksgiving. I have family again) and tomorrow, when my family goes to their father's for Christmas, I'm making the rounds visiting old and new friends. I've been up all night making pies and was for a time, banished to my bedroom so the family could wrap my Christmas present. The one person beyond my family that I love most in this world, celebrated the holidays with me a few days ago (we have an agreement that we spend the holidays with our families, otherwise with divorces, custody, who needs to be where when and all that, it gets far too complicated) and this morning, I woke up to snow on the ground. It's not a lot, but that doesn't matter. I have a white christmas. My family is playing games together in the living room and it's a grey day.
Tomorrow morning, we'll open presents from each other and have a big breakfast together (yep...complete with christmas carols playing) and then, they'll get moving so that they can enjoy it all over again with the other side of their family and all the friends that pop in over there.
Life doesn't get any better than this.
So, to everyone, no matter where you are, no matter whether your Christmas is green or grey, no matter if you are celebrating Christmas, or another holiday, I just pray this time of year is more than you hoped for and cost less than you dreamed. I hope you're all able to be with loved ones and can enjoy the laughter and unity that this time of year brings.
Happy Holidays everyone.
juliet
< Message edited by julietsierra -- 12/24/2007 10:10:15 AM >
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