X-Mas

[mlerules]

This'll be only the third (3rd) ever x-mas I won't have spent w/core grown-up with fambily. At first I was gonna say "at home," but I WILL be at home. CopperMoon is home. As is the Hive. In 1985, I lived in England, outside Brighton, on campus at the University of Sussex. All us ex-pats made a huge x-mas dinner for everyone staying in the dorms/suites over the holiadys and we had a fine time. In 1996, x-mas was on a Wednesday and my b-friend and I'd just taken three (3) weeks+ of vacation in Egypt so had NONE left to travel. My cuz and his new wife had just gone on their honeymoon so they were w/out any vacation left either so they came over (their fambily'd all traveled hours/hundreds of miles away to see other fambily). 'Twas really nice and fun.

It's easier not having to run all over seeing this fambily and that. My ex-hubby's 'rents were divorced (as're mine), so there were four (4) potential fambilies to see. Luckily now and again my mom would ask her ex and/or my in-laws over so we'd combine households and it'd be slightly less insane. Okay, it'd be insane in a different sort of way...

I've got a big fambily. I've got a mess of fambilies. I get on w/them, too, which is really nice. I'll miss 'em this x-mas, b'c it's reached a point when that's pretty much the only time to see everybody all together...'specially now that nieces and nephews're heading off to college.

EDIT: Oops, I forgot that in 1981 & 1982 I spent it w/dad rather than mom b'c the latter was in India and Sweden, respectively.

So, I'll be here and I'll be happy...and it'll be white and snowy and lovely...but there's a bittersweet quality to this holiday season, too. And I miss the kittenheads.

Comments

[vonvoncake.livejournal.com]

I understand. The first Yule season that I spent away from family was the first year I was married to the Geek. We were stationed in Florida and he had duty every 48 hours, so there was no going anywhere.

Now I spend most every Yule with my in-laws, who moved here from Wisconsin because we live in the best part of the nation (not biased at all, not me) and our chosen family. We do the same with Thanksgiving. One of these days we'll travel to Vegas to be with my BIL and SIL and their kids, but we have to have vacation around Yule first!

I'd stand on the roof and wave in your general direction, but I think it's a bit slick up there. So I'm waving madly to you all from my office window and hoping that you have a wonderful holiday together.

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

*waves back atcha* Enjoy your holiday w/fambily and all!

OhOhOh - thx for the heads up re: maple sugar candy. I stopped in and saw Jen, who'd sold out of it all already, but she'll prolly start carrying it year 'round most likely - whoo-hoo. Then I found it at Freddies on an endcap by the organic foodstuffs, just like you said!

O'morrow, in time-honored tradition, we'll open up our maple sugar santas, bite they little heads off, nibble on they tiny feet...