Christmas Tree with Stockings‘Tis the Season.

Gift giving and partying. Visiting with family and friends. Decking the halls and fa-la-la-ing.

It’s Christmas. Or, to be more inclusive Christmas … Hanukkah … and Kwanzaa.

For me, though, it’s Christmas.

Lots of stuff going on (it never seems to end) and lots of food and goodies. It’s really just me and the Missus for Christmas Day. We go over and visit with her family a few days after Christmas mostly because her family is so scattered it takes a few days for them all to get together in one place. It’ll be a big meal and and exchange of gifts. After that, some hugs and perhaps some memories of their mother who dies this past summer making this the first Christmas without her.

So, it’ll be bittersweet. Some of the tradition will be carried on, some not so much.

But, for Christmas Day, it’ll be kinda quiet. Which is the way I like it. Maybe read a little. Possibly catch a movie. Take a nap.

Next week will be time for reflection on 2011 and some projections into 2012.

Merry Christmas and a Ho! Ho! Ho!