holiday times.

 

Wow.  It's been a while since I've visited this good ol' blog of mine.  The semester flew by (I hope to recap a bit on that later) and now it is nearly Christmas.  The semester wound down with a wonderful Greek dinner and fun times with friends.  Being busy, busy seniors, most of our time together is spent with our heads in our textbooks and our fingers typing away on our laptops. It was nice to spend our last days together before break playing games, making food and watching movies.  Today, my first full day of break was spent painting, baking and celebrating the winter solstice.   It's been wonderful and I look forward to spending time with family over this holiday break.

p.s. more to come on handmade holiday things soon.

getting in the spirit.

Okay, so here's something.  Christmas is in three days.  Yes, THREE days.  This seems strange to me despite the Christmas tree, sugar cookies, gingerbread and wrapping paper that surround me.  Some of my favorite blogs have written loads of posts about Christmas, which I enjoy.  However, my pattern seems to be one post per season this year.  So, this is my Christmas post.  Maybe there will be more.  Maybe I should make a new years resolution about blogging...

 Amidst my surprise at the onset of Christmas, I have done a few Christmas-y things and I have been enjoying the advent season.  I have been making some Christmas cards and wrapping lots of gifts. Every time I eat a meal with my family we light the advent candles and read an advent prayer/ devotion from Henri Nouwen.  I love advent.  I love the anticipation of such a glorious day.  The day Jesus was born and the extra special day of family time each year.  Some of my favorite Christmas traditions are singing in the Candlelight Christmas Eve Concert at my church, eating fondue on Christmas Eve, opening stockings before breakfast on Christmas morning and performing some sort of magic show or play with my younger cousins.  I think one of the times that I most appreciate tradition is at Christmas time.  Traditions makes this time of year extra special.