December is one of my favorite months of the year. I love celebrating Christ's birth. I had intended to post frequently about our Christmas season, but as I mentioned in past posts, my laptop died and I had a season of learning to be content without my own computer. I realized that it is very easy to become attached to material possessions. :-) Then Christmas came, and did I ever mention that I have the most amazingly generous parents ever? So, now I just have to figure out how to get around Windows 8 properly and I'll be set. :-)
Anyways, here are a couple of highlights.
We were able to attend a Christmas Ball early in December. I've gone to lots of dances and "balls" but never to a formal ball, and when I say formal I mean modest prom dress formal. It was great fun! I got a custom order for a drawing - my first commissioned piece. I'll post a picture sometime. We had a Christmas party with some friends that we've known since I was a baby and we all decorated hats that were themed after our favorite part of Christmas. I love Christmas carols and I had some fabric with a Christmas carol on it, so I made a fascinator with a small lace veil and bow. It looked a little odd with jeans, but hey, I love old fashioned things and I LOVE fascinators. We went Christmas caroling at two different nursing homes, one with our 4-H group and one with families from my brother's Alert Cadet group. We celebrated three birthdays in our family. Mom had a wonderful birthday and we had some of her friends over....she picked one of the tastiest, most complex breakfasts I have ever made and let me tell you, it was tasty!! Rachel turned 13.....ahhhhh, another teenager! No, she's wonderful and I love her. We've become the best of friends over the years, which if you knew us when we were younger you would know is a big deal! Jared turned 9, which as he loves to point out, is only half of my age. I took him to Starbucks as a birthday gift and he said it was even better than he had imagined. He also informed me that he was going to be one of those "coffee guys" when he was older. Yep, little man after my own heart. <3 p="p">Probably the best thing we did all Christmas season was go caroling at the homes of some different people we know that are hurting or lonely this holiday season. One elderly man was confined to his wheelchair and he was so delighted to have us come. He orchestrated our singing the whole time and let out a "Yah -Hoooo" after every song. We had some fun fellowship afterwards, but nothing was as fun as seeing the smiles and the tears of the people we sang to.
Then of course we had Christmas. We played musical chairs to figure out which order we got to open presents in. That was funny. :-) The next day we celebrated with some of the grandparents and then Mom and I went to see Les Miserables. I know there are differing opinions going around concerning this movie, but it was the most amazing movie I have ever seen. (I will readily agree that it is a mature film though.)
And today is my students Christmas recital. Somehow I think that January is going to feel like I'm sitting on a cloud compared to the craziness of December.
One other piece of new before I go, if anyone is interested in the above picture, I am working on getting copies up on Etsy. If you would like to purchase one - with a frame - let me know.
God Bless to all!!!
P.S. How was your holiday season? Any exciting new or old traditions? Please share. :-)
1 comment:
Goodness, you had a full month! It sounds like it was a good one, though. :)
I just have to say, that sketch is beautiful. You are quite talented. Keep up the good work!
And I'm glad to hear you liked Les Mis. I saw it on Thursday and loved it. Oh, the tears I shed at the end... heavenly. ;) My parents enjoyed it too, but I think they felt it had a bit too much "mature" content in it. I was looking at it from the point of view of just being glad they didn't make it worse. I actually was rather pleasantly surprised that they didn't go further. And honestly, the Lovely Ladies song I found more heartbreaking than anything else... I have always just been disgusted by it, but in the movie, somehow I suddenly saw the utter hopelessness and destitution of so many human beings, rather than flagrant immorality... I felt like the movie actually made that song fit more truthfully with the rest of the musical for what it is: just another facet of the "miserable" life on this earth, these women driven to such misery and emptiness.
Anyway. Yeah. Glad you enjoyed the movie... I loved it as well. :)
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