Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Happy Holidays!
The festive greetings seem louder this year and maybe they even mean more.
Bill and I once again managed to put the tree up and got it covered with memories. I am always so proud that each ornament carries its own story going back so many years.
There are the Hungarian hearts sold to me by a woman on a street in Budapest. It was my first trip to Hungary to see where my father was born.
And look at the smallest decorated glass globes! They are what are left of the very first ornaments we purchased 62 years ago when newly wed. We were so young and just starting our lives as adults.
I love the doggy memories too. One real ostrich egg has our pair of Golden Retrievers painted on, and another is of my brother’s Dalmation. The horses are there too – Martini and Lucy.
The list goes on and the finally the fully dressed tree each year is actually a biography of a family.
That is what Christmas is all about – Past, Present, and Future. So, I am wishing you, my family and friends, good health and happiness and more of the same and lots of great memories in days to come.
MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Virginia Views 