Try As I Might The Christmas Spirit Eludes Me This Year

Christmas Is The Casualty This Year

If you could see the house we bought you would understand why we had to close on it in early December. So then we were at the mercy of the buyer for our house. He offered us an amazing amount, which we weren’t about to turn down for expediency’s sake.
So here we are feeling like well to do people in an amicable divorce.
Our skinny little Christmas tree was packed into the car last weekend with all the plants. But I packed the wrong lights. So there it sits in the window of our new family room, waiting to light up the lives of passers by, (of which there are few), pretty much defining our Christmas so far.
We knew we were writing off this Christmas or a good deal of it . But that doesn’t make it any less sad. My life is consumed with mundane things that tire me out and writing work that needs to be done before Christmas so other people can enjoy theirs.

My Big Attempt at Kickstarting My Christmas Spirit

Last week when we were both here, (where the Fibe TV is), we watched the wonderful Johnny Reid Special, “A Christmas Gift To You.”
Johnny is a transplanted Scotsman with a unique voice and is one of the best songwriters I have encountered in a while.
But he is also a Catholic and the songs he picked to sing, with the exception of a couple of his own, were the Christmas carols that a lot of us grew up with.
These songs, many of which celebrate the birth of Christ and the beginning of Christianity as we know it, are so ingrained in my psyche from hearing them every year sung by Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Andy Williams, The Three Tenors, Barbra Streisand and many others, that they always trigger a wave of teary eyed nostalgia from my earliest days here on planet earth.
Usually this is enough Christmas spirit juice to get me through the entire season. But this year it was just a temporary respite.

It Will Happen Soon

This is also the first year in my married life that I can recall our house not being the family gathering place for Christmas.
We will be moved in on the 19th, but the chaos will probably continue unabated for a while. Fortunately we have a lot more space in this house and can keep the entire first floor where we will be doing most of our living, relatively chaos free.
Maybe once that is all in place, the old Christmas flame will ignite in my brain and we can salvage at least a semblance of our usual Christmas deal.
I also find that writing posts about Christmas, which this is, in a left handed sort of way, also helps.
Christmas is my favourite time of year. It was a time of great joy when our kids were little shrimps and it is that again with two new little grandshrimps.
We will have a good time. My wife will make sure of that and, as usual, I will tag along for the ride.

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