Silly Cousins at Christmas

When I was young the Christmas Season started for me on Dec. 6th, the Feast of St. Nicolas, when our stockings were full of candy and small toys. It ended Jan. 13, the Octave of the Feast of the Epiphany. Nowadays the Christmas season starts for most the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and ends after New Year’s day when school beings. The church is not much into octaves anymore and even celebrates the Epiphany the nearest Sunday to Jan. 6th, which happens to be today, January 8th.

These days I start celebrating the holiday season is in full gear Dec. 22nd, the birthday of my eldest grandson and try to stretch out to Jan. 13th, which happens to be my birthday. This year from December 22nd till tomorrow morning has been full of visiting family and friends and having family and friends visit us. Our last guests were leaving this morning after Church when their car broke down and will be here till tomorrow, a sure sign that God does not want this season of appreciation of family and friends to end.

A friend that was visited from California wrote me the other day how much she enjoyed her visit here in Milwaukee. Some friends I have just talked with on the phone but I feel so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family.

We have been so blessed with visits of friends we have not sent out our annual Christmas card and update letter to friends we do not regularly see or hear from. Oh, well we still got five more days of the Christmas season, till Friday, January 13th to get them out.

In my older days I am starting to realize that perhaps this is what the Christmas season is all about: appreciating family and friends.

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