2021 Saturday — Our Christmas Day

Because Mr. Fun has surgery scheduled in a couple days, we are in Southern California until January something. So today as a soft rain fell we looked out through the windows into a neighborhood that we have called “ours” for years.

I moved into this house with my parents in May 1964 when it was brand new. I was a 9th grader at the time. I moved out in May of ‘65 to marry Mr. Fun. When my parents moved to Central California in August 1966, we moved in and rented from them till we bought the house in January 1970. We raised our kids here. The walls are full of memories. We have enjoyed many, many celebrations and holidays here and now we’ve added one more.

In times past (when we lived in the big house), we’ve had 12, 14, even 16 people at our holiday table. Today it was just quiet here with an obvious lack of people. This has been a different couple of years for many reasons, and Covid would be one of those.

So, we did what the two of us know how to do, we celebrated. We set a decorative table, listened to beautiful Christmas music, and in the kitchen, we prepared a feast. Our home not only filled with lovely tunes, but also savory aromas. About 3:30 we sat down to a delicious meal placed on the table by the front windows and spoke a prayer of thanks and said a toast of cheer and dined to the flavors of a holiday.

While we missed family — grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren — we celebrated our coupleness and the wealth we have in each other. This was our 57th Christmas together. It could be our last— if a trumpet, the Trumpet, sounds sometime before next December 25. So while we were concerned that it might be a lonely day, it was actually a day of reflection and anticipation.

Now we have enough leftovers to feast for days and a memory of a rainy Christmas that was just right for two, for the two of us.

None of us are as alone as Mary & Joseph must have felt that first Christmas. We are blessed with a warm home and food for our holiday dinner. We have each other and two pups who love us. We have the knowledge that Jesus left Heaven for us. I can hardly fathom what He did for me, for us. He came to take away our sin, not our minds. Salvation is a gift, if we’ll accept it and we did and we do. God loves us more than we can understand. The Bible reports it all. He died for me, for you. “Forever” is ours with Jesus. Where will you spend Forever?
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Merry Christmas everyone,
Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka Carol
and Chloe & Mitzi too!