Health Wealth Happy
Enjoy your holidays, my friends !
I ♥ you all !!
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I remember visiting my grandparents’ house on Christmas Eve many, many years ago.
I was in the kitchen, along with aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, sisters, Mom and Dad.
There were so many of us, we overflowed into Gramma’s living room.
We all had a piece of oplatek.
Oplatek is a thin wafer, made of flour and water
& the sharing of oplatki is a wonderful Polish tradition.
This treasured ritual calls for each of us to break off a piece of the wafer.
We then make our way around the room, offering our oplatki to other family members.
They break off a piece of my oplatki, I break off a piece of their oplatki
& as we do, we offer each other the wish of Health, Wealth and Happiness,
we BIG HUG
& we move on to our next person.
The beauty of oplatki (at least my family’s version) is the bumper car effect of it all.
Everyone is trying to reach everyone, so as not to forget anyone.
Health, Wealth, Happy
Bump.
Health, Wealth, Happy
Bump.
It’s laughter, kisses, confusion and crazy joy
& on that Christmas Eve, with so many of us crammed together, it was AWESOME.
Unfortunately, we couldn’t travel the 500 miles to Gramma’s every Winter, but Mom and Dad made sure we carried on.
We have shared oplatki wafers each year since that lovely night.
Christmas Eve is simply not Christmas Eve without the wish of Health, Wealth and Happiness.
It is truly the best part of the day.
So many of our family who were there on that long ago Eve are not physically with us today.
But each year, when that wafer makes it’s rounds, I can feel the warmth of their endless love.
I KNOW they are sharing our oplatki delight.
& so,
with those warm, fuzzy feelings in mind, I offer my simple, Christmas Eve wish to YOU …
May your heart overflow with bumper car glee
and may you forever receive an abundance of Health, Wealth
& especially Happiness in your life.
BIG. HUG.
♥