Happy Memory CHALLENGE! Challenge 25: Letting Go
     

I cannot remember all of my happy Christmases; even so, they have made me.



Christmas tree

  In my own way, I keep Christmas well. I always decorate my place to the hilt,
  surrounding myself with possibilities and good memories.

decorated BuddhaDecorations
mini elvesteapot ornament
paper snowflakes

Playing a game with JaneBen, Jane, and Susan in Christmas plaid

 

 

My sister and daughter (and often her young man) are with me every year.




Cookies

 

I bake and make things.
I send cookies and little gifts to far-off family.

Hedda spends a day baking or making things with me.

Snowy Minnetonka house with boys



  Sometimes I travel to
  spend Christmas with
  family in other states.

Family wearing plaid headbandsNew York Christmas
Sometimes I have a party: last year these ladies came for tea.

Barb, Shira, Margaret, and Beverly

 


Bins full of Christmas stuff


My Christmas always takes
a big investment in time,
but it's all part of the season.
Christmas cookies table
 



These days I do all this not to make new memories, but to make a new, joyful Christmas.

May all of your holidays be joyful, too!

 
 


 
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