Let's Celebrate!

When we have birthdays in our house, we stretch out the celebration over days or even weeks if we can find an excuse to do so. Celebrations are less about actual dates than about taking time to find the special in the ordinary and in stepping out of our regular routine. Last Christmas we had a very quiet day all to ourselves and this year it will be a treat to be with family we haven’t seen in a while. We decided to declare today Christmas Day for just the two of us. 
Neither of us had a lot of presents for the other so we decided to use the stockings that usually hang merely as decoration. That way we could avoid having to wrap anything. Richard stuffed my stocking last night and I got up before he did and stuffed his stocking this morning. Since it’s a Saturday, we figured we wouldn’t get the nuisance phone calls that have become so common lately. 
We gave ourselves permission to do what we have done the last few years on Christmas Day.  We stayed in our pj’s until after lunch. Richard drank coffee and I drank tea while we discovered the contents of our stockings. We had carols playing and the tree lights turned on even though it was light outside. After admiring our presents from each other we had another cuppa and chatted. We brought Odie into the living room so he could be with the flock.  Often in the morning we sit in the dining room where he is. Today we wanted to be where the tree was. The phone didn’t ring. Later, we tried to go for a walk but there was a fog warning and, although it was pretty out, the sidewalks were quite slippery. We made it around the block and then decided that neither of us wanted to carry the other home, so we opted to cut the walk short. 
I did some laundry. No, that isn’t part of my regular Christmas routine, but I thought it a good thing to do before going visiting. We fed the bird, watched a movie on Netflix and warmed up leftovers for supper. I finished boxing up the Christmas presents for friends and watched some YouTube videos. I drank some of the newest batch of kombucha. It was a quiet, uneventful, perfectly wonderful day. 
I confess to being on Facebook to check what friends were up to and to post. I always find something that makes me laugh and, at times, I find something that I want to write down. Today I found both. A friend posted a Celtic wish. I wrote it down for future reference.
“Blessed be your holidays
Cozy be your hearth
Merry be your family
Peaceful be your hearts.”