Perry Como sang it best in 1958 with "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas." It really is starting to look that way at MAJIRS! The Christmas trees are up in the office with the lights twinkling and shining on the gold and red balls. While we are staying warm inside; the outside temperature is getting cold and I even saw it trying to snow today.
It's fun to think about Christmas and all that goes along with it. The smell of gingerbread cookies baking in the oven, finding that perfect tree and placing your ornaments on it and giving it that extra touch of tinsel. The radio stations are playing non stop Christmas music and as much as we grumble about snow, it just wouldn't be Christmas with out it . It also is a time that you get to spend with your family and friends and carry out the traditions that you might have had growing up as a child or ones that you have just put into place in the last few years.
For me, the Christmas season would start when my mom, 2 sisters (Christine and Pamela) would start to decorate the house the day after Thanksgiving. We would help put mom's village up and hang the stockings downstairs by the wood stove. Then we would all meet upstairs to set up the tree. While us girls were pulling out our ornaments, mom would come out of her room with a new ornament for each one of us with our name and the year on it. This is still a tradition I carry on now that I am married and on my own. On Christmas eve we would spend the whole day together and have a great big meal with ham and potatoes and gravy and an excellent homemade apple pie. It was like Thanksgiving all over where you eat and eat until you just can't eat anymore. After my 2 sisters and I would help mom clean off the table and do dishes we would all get into the family vehicle and go look at Christmas lights around town. Somehow, Santa always new when we were gone because when we came home there were gifts under the tree. We must have been very good!
As I have gotten older, I have learned that Christmas is for the little kids (the gifts) and that for us adults, it is really about spending time with your friends and family and making memories. It is hard to believe that in a few weeks Christmas will be here. I hope that you all take the time to enjoy the holiday season and make some great memories!
From everyone here at MAJIRS! we hope you have a very Merry Christmas and great New Year! Happy 2010
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