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Baby’s Dream

When I was a little child (yes, that has been quite a few years ago but, boy, have my memory skills stayed strong…..) I used to love this time of year.  We had all of this extra time off between Christmas and New Year’s Day to just goof  off, fight with my siblings, and pretty much just drive my parents nuts!

When I became an mother of children who had the time off, I used to take vacation and stay home with them so I could monitor the ‘goofing off’, referee the fighting and try to stay sane through it!

 

Now I have married children with children who usually come up to see us after Christmas and stay through New Year’s Day.  This is just the best time!!  Don’t get me wrong, my grandchildren do the same things–goof off, fight and try to drive us nuts–but for some reason it just doesn’t bother us as much as it did when our own children did it. 

 

Since I now consider this week off a ‘tradition’, I continue to enjoy it and consider this MY time!  This is when I can get caught up on my reading, watch old movies on TV, GO to the movies (I love all of the movies that come out for Christmas — and who cares if that popcorn is bad for you?  I love that stuff!), and QUILT until my eyes no longer focus!

 

My point???  Take a few moments and enjoy the time with friends and family, watch the bowl games–in my house the only way to NOT see the games is to leave the house, and find some time to just be YOU!