Happy Holidays

The holidays have come and gone and I hope yours were merry and bright.  Mine went by so quickly that I feel like I barely got the change to celebrate, but it has felt that way every Christmas for the past few years.  I don't know if time speeds up as we get older or if the past few years have just been so much busier than when my children were little, but whatever the case I'd like to see life slow down a little bit, at least by next Christmas.

When my children were little I worked hard at creating holiday traditions like "cookie day" where we baked goodies for all the neighbors and friends in our lives, but we haven't had the time since they started high school, and that's just one of many traditions that has fallen by the wayside of late.  I have all the good intentions of checking our traditions off my list each year, but it's just too easy to get caught up in the everyday busyness and forget to make time for these special days.  It really makes me appreciate all the work I never knew my mom and grandma put in to making the holidays special not just when I was little but all the way through my teen years too.

I suppose since the Christmas has passed, the best thing to do is try not to dwell on the ways I messed up or missed out, after all, we didn't skip all our traditions, we still watched the favorite movies, made a couple of our favorite Christmas treats, and played a few hands of our year-round favorite game.  The best thing to do now is to press on and try even harder to make next year's holidays all the more special and memorable.