After Christmas Thoughts...

 

 

 

 

I haven't taken down the trees yet, i haven't touched the outside decorations yet, i haven't organzied anything yet. Instead, i've just kind of enjoyed these past few days after Christmas. I've loved just relaxing and looking at the tree at night with just the tree lights on, i've loved just sitting back and studying my Nativity sets, and i've really enjoyed re-reading all of the Christmas Cards that i've gotten. And of course, i've really enjoyed watching Emma with the tree and how she'll ask if she can touch the tree decorations...she is facinated with touching the ornaments, feeling them and naming them. Her favorite ornaments are the same ones i love: the Guatemalan angels, the beaded Guatemalan ornaments, the Snowmen ornaments and my growing collection of annual stars. She and i look at them every morning and evening...touching them, saying how pretty they are and then putting them back in their place.

I think that both Emma and i will be sad when i finally put those trees and ornaments away.

But the New Year stuff is right around the corner. Time for resolutions, new hopes and new joys for the New Year. Emma's birthday is right around the corner, too and she will be turning three years old. Amazing that my little one will be three years old! I sometimes look at Emma and know that in a few short years, well, she won't be a 'little one' anymore. She will have her own friends, her own likes/dislikes-->oh, wait, those are already here...and she will be growing into a new phase of her life. I can't wait to watch her grow...

...but i hope that she'll do it slowly. :)