It's been a challenging year. We just need some time to catch up with life and our yearly holiday traditions were adding to the pressure. I've always been an advocate of separating the meaning of Christmas from the hype on a bi-yearly basis and this year we're doing it. No cooking, no tree and no presents. Instead we made plans for an escape. Once the decision was made I felt released from a tremendous weight. Only the most basic Christmas decorations came out – my little ceramic Christmas Tree:
and the Nativity, my original olive wood set from my single years, with a stable constructed by Chuck and little ones and some lovingly added mismatched additions:
It wouldn't be Christmas without it.
Of course a unique set of circumstances helped make our exit possible – the agreeable kids of a reasonable age, the cancellation insurance from C's interrupted trip, someone willing to come in and keep an eye on things. So we're off to Honduras for a week. A tiny little town on a great big beach. We'll see what good we can get into.
Feliz Navidad!
(PS for those looking for my pattern. Please leave a comment and I will e-mail it to you next week.)
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