Merry Christmas 2024!!!

Good Morning & Merry Christmas to all! 

I don't know where the year went. It feels like I blinked my eye, and voila!, it is Christmas again! 

I remember as a child, Christmas Eve was the longest night of the year. Brief spells of sleep felt like a full night's rest. We would wake up, jump out of bed, run to see the Christmas tree, only to be told to go back to bed and that Santa had not yet come. After a night of many false alarms, when the time did come, we would awake to find a fully transformed living room. Overnight it would become that happy place anticipated by most children all night. Gifts and toys were everywhere! 

Our parents went above and beyond, often well beyond their actual means, to ensure that on this special night, their children knew pure delight. If on no other day, children were over indulged on Christmas day.

I am told that today's children have to be awakened on Christmas morning. How sad that they have been robbed of such an innocent and happy life sustaining moment. While commercialization of the holiday surely has robbed the day of it's true meaning or intent, I surmise that today's children are gifted so often throughout the year, special occasion or not, that gifts on Christmas are just another gift, on just another day... It's a new day. 🤷🏾

My generation was mostly showered with gifts on birthdays and Christmas, with an occasional token gift in between. The farther away was your birthday was from Christmas, the happier was your childhood at least twice per year! Those poor babies born between mid December and at least early January, sometimes their magnificent days were blurred... LOL!!! 

What has not changed, however, is Christmas is still a time for family and friends, families with children especially. Take the day off! Ignore all work related calls or emails. Spend this time being truly present with loved ones. 

Extend yourself to the elderly, the sick and shut-in, those who have no family, and especially to those who have experienced personal loss during the last year. If ever they need you, it is now... 

It's Christmas Y'all! 

Be Especially Merry, 

Be Intentionally Happy, 

and Eat Waaay' TOO MUCH on Purpose! 

ENJOY!!!

~ Miss Higgi