The next Chapter : Our Christmas Story unfolds

Ok, so 5 (and yes, please note 5) days before Christmas, I suddenly decided that this year would be the perfect year for the kids to create hand-made Christmas Cards for Grandparents, Aunts & Uncles, so let’s see how this one goes….more to follow….  We shall re-attempt this tradition next year….no further comments

With us being so busy I desperately tried to create some magic surrounding this wonderful time of year.  There was truly moments where it felt as if Christmas lost it’s magic, as if the commercialism of Christmas is killing it’s spirit, as if the Christmas spark is slowly fading away.  But we fought back; we fought for the magic of Christmas time, the beauty, the wonder, and the splendour thereof…

So, we have :   

  

• Blinking Christmas Lights      √       

• Christmas Stockings filled with all sorts of goodies      √   

• All the Christmas presents wrapped      √    

(all but mom’s, which by the way, was bought and wrapped in time for Christmas Day). 

• Christmas presents stocked underneath the Christmas Tree      √  

• Spending quality time as a family on Christmas Eve      √   

• Hanco pretending to be Father Christmas, playing with Sparklers and making sure that hungry reindeers had something to eat when they landed at our house      √

I read the story of Christmas out of 2 different storybooks, just to make sure that the littlest understood what it is all about.  We opened gifts from the Christmas Stockings, whilst we waited for the arrival of Santa and his reindeers…but eyes grew heavy and littlest tired, so off to bed they went….

Christmas Day was met with great anticipation, we had to inspect the bowl of reindeer food, and found it to be empty….smiles grew wider, excitement filled the air.  But the greatest joy I could have received on any Christmas morning was that of seeing the beaming from the faces of my Biekies when they saw what waited for them underneath the Christmas Tree, no matter how big or how small, they were grateful for what they have received, and that is one of the greater lessons in life to be learned….being grateful for what you have and being grateful for what you have received.

This was truly a wonderful Christmas, spending time with family, reconnecting with loved ones on various different levels.  But most of all, watching my littlest Biekies through all of this made me realise how blessed we as a family truly are. 

Yes, life might not be always moonshine and roses, and the path may at times be a rocky one, but we, as a family, can do this.  We can wave 2011 goodbye, knowing that what he had to offer, was actually not all that bad, we can thank him for the good times, the smiles and the loves, we can look back and learn for the tougher moments, we can allow those moments to make us stronger.

And what does 2012 have in store for us….I don’t know, I can only but wonder what he will deliver, and we will await same with grate anticipation