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Our first Christmas

12:55, Tuesday, December 4, 2007 .. Posted in Just Thinking .. 1 comments .. Link

Here at the library, I have just put up our seasonal display of Christmas books. It's my favorite book display to do! All year long those Christmas books taunt me from the stacks: "Don't you wish it was December already?"
It's an easy display. To find books for it, I can simply walk up and down the aisles looking for Christmas themed stories, which are easily identified by their festive book jackets. And these books are so popular I will have to replenish the entire display at least once a day!

More than one friend has pointed out that this is the first Christmas for my husband and I in our new home. They wondered what decorating plans we have, what new traditions might manifest? As you might expect, decorating isn't something we are terribly concerned with considering the bare-bones state of our house. Also, we have two rowdy indoor dogs that I suspect will take no prisoners when festive objects go on display. As for traditions, our main tradition seems to be getting engaged, since it was just a little over a year ago we did that. It's hard to believe that it was only a year ago that took place, followed by a whirlwind year of house buying, wedding dress sewing, wedding, post-wedding trip, dog adoptions, and so many other things, too. The Lord blessed us so greatly this past year, it was actually hard to accept.

Growing up, it's not the planned annual traditions we did that really bring back memories of our Christmases. It was those things that simply seemed to happen year after year, that we had no control over, that became our traditions.

Every year, my Grandmother's friend from Germany would send us a Christmas package filled with wonderful Swiss chocolates. This was long before they were available in stores here, as they are now. Oh how I loved that chocolate! And wrapped in the same package were gifts for us- strange and comical gifts, usually clothing, always in hilariously small or enormous sizes, and in loud, mismatched patterns and colors. We would have a good laugh about the odd choices, and then dutifully write the thank you note.

Anyway, the family Christmas letter reported on in a former post is in the final editing stages. So maybe that's a tradition.

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