It's starting already! It's hard to believe that we are moving into the Christmas season! What happened? Not along ago the kids were in the pool; now it's closed and all covered with fallen leaves. Walk into any store and you are bombarded with Christmas decorations and music! Did I miss Thanksgiving? I don't remember making the turkey! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, and everyone has jumped past it and moved on! Have we become a society that wants to forget about being thankful and move on to the "getting" of what Christmas has become?
Are we wishing our lives away? As the "great philosopher" Bon Jovi once sang, "Life is just what happened, while we were busy making plans." Are we so busy making our plans that we are missing life? I hope not! It seems like we are always looking ahead and missin' all the wonderful stuff that's right in front of us: watchin' the kids throw the football with dad, the boys working on plays to beat dad, grandpa and uncle at the annual Turkey Bowl game, making gingerbread houses with mom, realizing that the kids now "get" sarcastic humor (and are now using it), watching the kids form their own opinions about things and how they articulate those opinions (we've heard a lot about politics lately from our political analyst, love that she has taken an interest in such things), and there's many more.
I guess what I'm trying to say is. . . this Christmas season, or better yet the entire year, while we must plan for things, let's also be thankful for what we have right in front of us and not get so far ahead of ourselves that we miss the good stuff!
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