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Memories Of Christmas Already Past

12/27/2016

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    Funny how Christmas comes and goes. 
   Christmas Lite begins the day after Halloween, which is when the stores start putting out the Christmas displays, and there aren't 12 days of Christmas but usually at least 30, the first actual day of Christmas being the day after Thanksgiving.
      And yet for as the long as the Christmas season is, I invariably find myself wondering on the night of December 25th how Christmas Day could have come so quickly and be over so soon. 
    And now, as usual,  I find myself musing over some of the random small, warm moments that made the season twinkle:

   It was just a short, skinny, $22.99  tree from Lowes,
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...but oh, what it seemed to be.
     The Wednesday before Christmas when the Panera Posse met at my house,
...bearing gifts of yummyness to share,
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...some too beautiful to eat,
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...but of course we scarfed them down way.
   One of my friends brought along a paper plate craft for my grand daughters to do.
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...which was a great hit,
....as was the Christmas note-writing pads and colored pens my friend also gave them.
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...Grandpa playing Peppa Pig.
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...everyone playing Peppa Pig.
   From friends and neighbors gifts of home-made cookies and fudge,
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...and a beautiful fruit basket,
 ...and the trays of cookies I likewise delivered.
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     Wrapping a few presents for the children on Christmas Eve,
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...then the joy of watching them  on Christmas morning.
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...having some  music,
...eating Christmas brunch,
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...eating Christmas dinner at the Iron Chef Japanese Steak House.
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...which was surprisingly busy,
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...and fun,
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...even though my 5-year-old grand daughter and I had to leave the restaurant and go sit in the bar and watch the game for a while because she was afraid of the fire whooshed up by the chef on the griddle in the middle of our table,
...and where we saw a wonderful Apple commercial with a lonely Frankenstein who sings "There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays".  If you haven't seen it yet you really should check it out, it'll tug at your heart and make you smile.  Here's the link:

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-004&hsimp=yhs-004&hspart=mozilla&p=christmas+commercial+with+frankenstein+sings#id=1&vid=c389b3d116128c0c4b3c4

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      Then the day after Christmas my daughter, son-in-law and grandbabies headed out to the airport and boarded a plane for home.  But I wasn't sad,
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...because I was on the plane with them.
    Seasons greetings to all from Los Angeles!
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2 Comments
MJ
12/28/2016 10:16:45 am

Sounds like you had a wonderful time as always. Missed getting together.

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Patti
12/28/2016 08:54:27 pm

Oh, I know! I missed getting together, too!

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