Christmas

It has come and gone now. The advent calendars and count downs can be put away for 11 months and thus beginning a new year with new challenges, new people and new situations. So my Christmas, well it was surely different than years past, never before have I attending five family gatherings, four present opening or had that much turkey in one week. However, with all of that, it was wonderful, so many people to celebrate with and also reconnect with after being away since September. If I could I would go back and start the whole week over again, I wouldn’t add anything to the week and surprisingly I wouldn’t take anything away, not even one of the turkey dinners or when I got sat on. I could go on and list all the foods I ate, all the gifts I got and all the times I laughed until I cried. But that wouldn’t do anybody any good because those are my memories from my holiday and not yours. Everybody has their memories from their Christmas and has their own traditions (something I thought we, Archers, lacked in until they started). So, that is all I will say about my Christmas, just that is was one of the best yet.

I was asked if this was the best Christmas yet and I couldn’t say yes as in yes it was by far much better than all the rest but I could say yes because it was different than all the rest. I have spent four Christmas’s outside of Canada in three different countries and those are the ones I remember, I am sure I spent at least one in the USA with my American side of the family (however it would have been when I was younger and I hardly remember anything from those days). For me, there are no two Christmas’s that are the same, the ones I remember are all so different from each other, I wouldn’t even know where to start comparing them to each other. So, yes this was the best Christmas but only because I haven’t had one quite like this before.

Love,

a.m