Well, almost all of the Christmas festivities have ended around here. We have a little more gift exchanging to do tonight and then I think all the focus goes to New Year’s Eve.
It’s a very quiet day today. I can almost hear Bill O’Reilly’s blood pressure dropping as he packages up his imaginary “War on Christmas” for next year. The various frenzies over religious displays are beginning to wind down, with people on all sides of the issue meandering off shaking their heads in disgust or dismay (or both). Christmas seems to bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.
Here at our house, however, Christmas just rocked. Everyone at the various family gatherings got along wonderfully and there wasn’t even an inkling of tension or annoyance (that I noticed, anyway). The people were fun, the food was great, the gifts were wonderful and, once again, my wife did phenomenol job with the decorations and the cooking… and all the other stuff that she does behind the scenes to make things go smoothly.
Now if I can just keep from gaining 10 pounds from all the leftovers in the fridge…