Double Happy
The older me sometimes wonders how the younger me did it. Due in early January, this 8 lb 6 oz bundle of boy, dubbed First, arrived exactly one week before Christmas.
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And I think … was I super organized that year ? Had I purchased, wrapped, prepared and trimmed our holiday so tidy and tediously that every little detail was properly held in place ??
hmmm.
Mom had 5 of us running around when #6 decided to join our crew on a December 18th night, fourteen years earlier, but go ahead and ask if I remember any toy or doll or any other anything besides a chubby newborn sister on December 25th and I’ll happily reply, NOPE.
hmmm.
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With all the comings and goings and doings and busyness attached to a birthday-birthday so close to Christmas, the actual celebrating of the individual sometimes feels like it gets lost in the shuffle. And I suppose if you ask Son and Sister, they’d probably agree. But there’s something so special surrounding this 24 that fills me with a warmth like no other.
It’s hers.
It’s his.
It’s theirs
& no matter if they are together or apart, she’ll have an Angel Food cake with chocolate frosting
and he’ll have Chocolate Chip cake.
They will take a picture somewhere down the line to mark the occasion, and a tradition started long ago will melt together with the often chaotic memories to remind, once again, it is thisclose to Christmas and life is really, REALLY good.
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& dang, I love the feel of this day.
Double hugs.
Double love.
Double Happy.
🙂 🙂