Christmas Rituals
I am taking this week off of publishing my book and I missed last week due to symptoms completely knocking me out. This week I wanted to share a post I’ve been able to write around our holiday rituals.
I have never spent a Christmas alone. I don’t say that with any judgment or opinion, just stating a fact. There have been plenty of Christmases where I have been achingly lonely, surrounded by people who were family in name but not in spirit.
Until my kids were born, that is how all of them were with a few exceptions. One exception was a Christmas early in my marriage that was very sweet. I made stockings for Kendall and me, stockings that we still use 20 years later. That year Kendall bought me a self healing cutting mat and a rotary cutter for my sewing. It was an enormous and thoughtful splurge. I had only begun sewing a year before, but loved it. It was just the two of us and it felt like such a relief to me to finally be away from my biological lineage, as well as Kendall’s and all …