Christmas Eve

  Mom is here.  Well, she's my mother in law.  I don't have much of a relationship with my mother.
Anyhow, she's here and was a great surprise to the kids.  They are thrilled, and I admit, I am happy as well.  It's been too long.
  So.....
Christmas Eve

   The stockings are not hung, by the mantel, as we don't have one, but shall be laid out with the gifts, under the tree in the morning.  There are a few gifts to wrap yet, and to be honest, the kids had only asked for a few, so I think they will be surprised, at the few extra they find.  Not that gifts make Christmas, but if I'm not able to find the two things they want the most, then...I remember, as a child, some Christmas', wishing I could have traded the few gifts I received, for just that one I had really wanted.

  But, that is then, and this is now.  I do feel melancholy, as I do each Christmas.  Just a bit, mind you.  I don't know, it just creeps up, when I start thinking about certain things.  Today, the song, "O Holy Night", came on and brought me to tears.  I could not stop thinking of both my grandfather, whom I feel truly accepted me for who I was, and our lost baby.

  So....
  Christmas Eve is here.
 I'm enjoying watching, "A Christmas Story", which I think is pretty funny.
And I'm wishing all my friends and family,
 a wonderful Christmas.