Sunday, November 30, 2008

A New Christmas


"You do realize Christmas will never be the same." I said to Ty as we were driving home from Salt Lake this evening.


Scotty was sleeping in the back of the car, and Christmas music was playing on the radio. It hit me all at once, everything about Christmas will be different now. Better. More exciting. We not only are transforming into white haired fatty's (wink) but we are responsible for making family traditions and carrying them out. We get to see the twinkle in our children's eyes as they learn the true meaning of Christmas. We get to spend our holidays enjoying the simple parts of Christmas that you forget about as adults. The little things like the note and cookies left out for Santa Claus, learning a new Christmas song, reading Christmas stories at night, hanging stockings and excitedly putting the Christmas tree up and decorations out.


How wonderful it is to become parents.

1 comments:

Bethany said...

What a sweet post. I wholeheartedly agree and still marvel that I get to be the machinations behind the scenes now. I am enjoying it more than I have ever enjoyed the holidays, traditions and magic before. Yay for parenthood.