Christmas Cards & Children
1/13/08
Today I am taking down the Christmas cards and Christmas decorations. It’s been AGES since I’ve written on my blog but I think it’s time to get back to it. So here’s a little post-holiday reflection. The Holidays were nice this year, no stress, easy, enjoyable, no major excess. Jon and I didn’t send out cards but we happily received them, we didn’t do the present thing either. I LOVE not getting caught up in the commercial BUY BUY BUY nonsense. Get something if it feels right, don’t if it doesn’t. We went to Cambridge and spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day with my family. It was simple, the traditional meals. Marcella and Bill came over Christmas Eve for cuba (a barley and mushroom dish), carp, potato salad and apple strudel. My daddy read the nativity liturgy from the bible in Czech as is our tradition we lit the candles on the tree while Mami chimed in with O Tannenbaum. Christmas Day Teresa Neighbor joined mami, daddy, Jon and I for duck with cabbage and dumplings. Later that day, Jon and I drove around Cambridge in search of peppermint stick ice cream and ended up laughing with the White Hen Pantry man about how it’s not White Hen anymore. Jon made sure the usual suspects (super, mailman, cleaning gal) all got a little Christmas money. Yikes I still need to give Sarah at the cleaners something she is such special woman – I like chatting with her. I always think about how her life is so different from mine. It’s nice taking down the cards because I get to re-read them and re-connect with the folks that sent cards. It’s an eclectic mix of good friends, kind acquaintances, professional obligations, actor-friends I love, other actor-friends, people from the past, Cindy from college and her two girls, Mimi from highschool days, Edna from the Pet Therapy department, a nice card from United for Peace and Justice. A card from Suzanne our friend in Montreal who’s father recently passed. Amazing with all the she’s going through – she manages to send out the Christmas cards. No one sent any round robin letters through the mail, a few via email. Jon seems to hate these, like some people dislike the cards with family photos. I like both. I like the round robin letters and I like seeing photos of my friends kids, Ellen’s girls, Ethan’s baby – still can’t believe Ethan is a daddy. I am ALWAYS amazed by the kid thing. Like Sarah the woman at our laundry place, my friends with kids just seem like they live in a completely different world, a world I may be a little curious about but ultimately don’t want to visit (I don’t think). Okay that’s enough for now.
Today I am taking down the Christmas cards and Christmas decorations. It’s been AGES since I’ve written on my blog but I think it’s time to get back to it. So here’s a little post-holiday reflection. The Holidays were nice this year, no stress, easy, enjoyable, no major excess. Jon and I didn’t send out cards but we happily received them, we didn’t do the present thing either. I LOVE not getting caught up in the commercial BUY BUY BUY nonsense. Get something if it feels right, don’t if it doesn’t. We went to Cambridge and spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day with my family. It was simple, the traditional meals. Marcella and Bill came over Christmas Eve for cuba (a barley and mushroom dish), carp, potato salad and apple strudel. My daddy read the nativity liturgy from the bible in Czech as is our tradition we lit the candles on the tree while Mami chimed in with O Tannenbaum. Christmas Day Teresa Neighbor joined mami, daddy, Jon and I for duck with cabbage and dumplings. Later that day, Jon and I drove around Cambridge in search of peppermint stick ice cream and ended up laughing with the White Hen Pantry man about how it’s not White Hen anymore. Jon made sure the usual suspects (super, mailman, cleaning gal) all got a little Christmas money. Yikes I still need to give Sarah at the cleaners something she is such special woman – I like chatting with her. I always think about how her life is so different from mine. It’s nice taking down the cards because I get to re-read them and re-connect with the folks that sent cards. It’s an eclectic mix of good friends, kind acquaintances, professional obligations, actor-friends I love, other actor-friends, people from the past, Cindy from college and her two girls, Mimi from highschool days, Edna from the Pet Therapy department, a nice card from United for Peace and Justice. A card from Suzanne our friend in Montreal who’s father recently passed. Amazing with all the she’s going through – she manages to send out the Christmas cards. No one sent any round robin letters through the mail, a few via email. Jon seems to hate these, like some people dislike the cards with family photos. I like both. I like the round robin letters and I like seeing photos of my friends kids, Ellen’s girls, Ethan’s baby – still can’t believe Ethan is a daddy. I am ALWAYS amazed by the kid thing. Like Sarah the woman at our laundry place, my friends with kids just seem like they live in a completely different world, a world I may be a little curious about but ultimately don’t want to visit (I don’t think). Okay that’s enough for now.
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