It's Christmas...
The house is dark, except for the lights on the Christmas tree, the lights running along the top of our cupboards-covered in pine boughs, and the soft glow of the artificial tea lights sitting on my wife's pine-wreath chandelier. It still smells slightly of the gingerbread men she made yesterday with the little boy she works with twice a week, as well as the asparagus soup from last night's dinner. For some reason, tonight's dinner never drove the smells out of the house--but that's okay, because they're smells I love.
The house is dark, and it feels like Christmas.
It's a funny phrase--"feels like Christmas"... what do we mean when we say it? What does Christmas feel like? What should Christmas feel like? Are we actually saying that it feels like the day that Christ was born and came to forever change the world for all of humanity? Or are we saying that it feels warm, inviting, cozy, peaceful, relaxing, comforting, and "right"? (or, as the Dutch would say, "gezellig" (sp?)
Whichever the answer is for you (maybe a combination of both?) I hope that you can find the time and headspace in this holiday season to honestly slow down, simplify, and just be...to me, that's part of the beauty of the time of year we're in. Life CAN slow down and just be (even though culture actually picks up the frenetic pace to something more like super-ultra-hyper-frenetic...)
Here are some photos of our simple, "Charlie Brown" Christmas so far... I say "Charlie Brown", not because it's scragly and dying...but because it's not anything fancy... it's all been done for free... and it feels SO right... It definitely feels like Christmas to me.
(forgive the blur--these photos were taken in poor lighting, with a 2.5-second shutter speed, and no tripod)
The house is dark, and it feels like Christmas.
It's a funny phrase--"feels like Christmas"... what do we mean when we say it? What does Christmas feel like? What should Christmas feel like? Are we actually saying that it feels like the day that Christ was born and came to forever change the world for all of humanity? Or are we saying that it feels warm, inviting, cozy, peaceful, relaxing, comforting, and "right"? (or, as the Dutch would say, "gezellig" (sp?)
Whichever the answer is for you (maybe a combination of both?) I hope that you can find the time and headspace in this holiday season to honestly slow down, simplify, and just be...to me, that's part of the beauty of the time of year we're in. Life CAN slow down and just be (even though culture actually picks up the frenetic pace to something more like super-ultra-hyper-frenetic...)
Here are some photos of our simple, "Charlie Brown" Christmas so far... I say "Charlie Brown", not because it's scragly and dying...but because it's not anything fancy... it's all been done for free... and it feels SO right... It definitely feels like Christmas to me.
(forgive the blur--these photos were taken in poor lighting, with a 2.5-second shutter speed, and no tripod)
