The Best Christmas Ever
I pretty much feel that way about every Christmas but this year was pretty spectacular.
It wasn't just that we were personally responsible for the boost in the electronics market or that everything that came out of the kitchen surpassed expectation or that the champagne was particularly bubbly and the coffee especially rich.
It wasn't just the gifts, even though everyone got what they really, really wanted. It was the fact that even in that there were surprises which spoke to great thoughtfulness on the part of the givers.
It was the smells and the bells and the music, for sure. But most of all, she said meaning it sincerely even though it sounds corny, it was all the love.
It wasn't just fun to have Hat in our home, it felt perfectly natural that she should be there. Auntie Hat. And dancing with The Spouse and seeing The Child so happy in this year when she wondered if there was still such a thing as Christmas magic. "This is the best Christmas EVER" she declared, more than once. And it really was.
It wasn't just that we were personally responsible for the boost in the electronics market or that everything that came out of the kitchen surpassed expectation or that the champagne was particularly bubbly and the coffee especially rich.
It wasn't just the gifts, even though everyone got what they really, really wanted. It was the fact that even in that there were surprises which spoke to great thoughtfulness on the part of the givers.
It was the smells and the bells and the music, for sure. But most of all, she said meaning it sincerely even though it sounds corny, it was all the love.
It wasn't just fun to have Hat in our home, it felt perfectly natural that she should be there. Auntie Hat. And dancing with The Spouse and seeing The Child so happy in this year when she wondered if there was still such a thing as Christmas magic. "This is the best Christmas EVER" she declared, more than once. And it really was.
Labels: Christmas, good friends, I love the Hat, yummy food
cobbled together by Moi at 10:19 AM
18 Comments:
Lovely, filled with love, loved, love.
Warm and wonderful Rainey..All that,and snow too!
An RC helicopter is every little boy's dream.
What a lovely Christmas! Sniffle!
Scott wants to come play RC helicopters! Sam too!
That gives me warm oogies all over.
Okay, I'm a sappy mess now. Again! lol. I'll be wanting copies of those mistletoe kissies (:
Indeed, Rosie.
The snow was so awesome, Sling. Just enough to whiten everything up and not enough to bollox everything. And I'm sure The Spouse will share.
Come on over, Pamelamama!
Take a couple aspirin and call me in the morning, Buck.
Photos ono their way, Hat!
Awww...looks like a lovely time was had by all! Yay!
It's funny, but I felt it too.
I'm think maybe God was giving extra love this year.
Lorraine - every Christmas is the best Christmas when you spend it with people that you love. Its easy to see you had a best Christmas.
Looks like a great Christmas, may your 2008 be filled with the same happiness.
remind me to watch this later, I can't see it now on the iphone. Drat
Christmas magic and a new year coming. Doesn't get any better than that.
merry and bright indeed! and wasn't the snow the perfect topper? beautiful!
(And I see the Smilebox addiction still lives, quietly lurking, waiting for its holiday opportunity to firmly grasp the user in yet another photo phrenzy...)
Truly, Syd.
I suspect we really needed it, Iwanski. Merry Christmas, buddy.
You're absolutely right, Willym. (You usually are, you know).
Right back at you, Twisi! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, sweetie!
Girlfriend, you have got to stop bragging about that iPhone! Jealousy is an ugly emotion.
Too true, KA, too true.
It would have been awesome, anyway, Cowbell, but yeah, the surprise of a white Christmas just sent us all over the edge bliss-wise.
(And please, one never quits Smilebox...just wait til I get the Sing for Your Supper pics downloaded!)
Loved the Smilebox vid. Glad you had a Merry and snow too!
It sounds like a perfectly divine Christmas! I do have to argue one point - I am sure that WE were personally responsible for the boost in the electronics market. Check out my latest post and you'll see what I mean. :S Other than that, our Christmas was also white and very merry. I'm so glad you had Hat over. How perfect!
And the proverbial good time was had by all..
Snow at Christmas. In Seattle. Who'd a thunk, Suz?
Gina, then I guess it's safe to say that your family and ours did our bit for the economy, eh? Silly of me to think we could do it alone! Merry Christmas!
Doralong, it was a spoon-banging, mistletoe drapin', "God bless us everyone" of a day!
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