I know Christmas is over, but I had to share just a few things about our Christmas.
There is really nothing like getting to cuddle a newborn during Christmas time. I'm sure I'm not the only mother who has wept listening to "Away in a Manger" while cuddling her newborn child. The last verse is my favorite.
I understand now how loving a person can change them. In the month leading up to Li Ya's birth and the month following, I was the recipient of much service. I won't ever be the same because of it.
Christmas at home was lovely, but I still long to have cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents around during the holidays. We need to move west! I used to think I'd like to stay in Virginia forever, but traveling to the west with four kids is just too difficult and expensive to do it as often as we would like.
I love putting on Christmas for my family. Each Christmas, I hope to focus more on my Savior than I did the last Christmas and focus less on the things. But somehow I always allow myself to stress out about the things, especially during crunch time. I hope I won't always do that, but likely I will. I hope though that I'm doing enough to teach my children about Him and how to love and serve Him.
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas.
2 comments:
There really is something magical about a newborn at christmas! My 2nd was born Dec. 18th and it is one my fondest memories of a christmas...i loved getting up with him at night by the light of the christmas tree and thinking of Mary and the baby Jesus.
I relate to all you just wrote, especially about hoping you can get Christmas to be more about the real meaning and less about the stuff. That is exactly how I felt this year. I am hopeful that a good transition might be to get my kids more involved in getting stuff for others on our lists, instead of just me taking them shopping with my money. Hopefully next year. I also relate to moving west, the difference being that I would be leaving my family, which would be so sad and keeps me here. But the weather and lifestyle are a really big deal to me, and we could be close to Brigham's family, but who cares about them? haha
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