- a three year old opens the book I gave her, exclaims the preschooler equivalent of "omigosh" and names every one of the Disney women on the cover by name
- her slightly older brother invests every minute of the hour after he opened my gift to him putting the pieces together with the pleasure and concentration of an engineer
- their older sister hugs herself in the jacket I gave her and then continues to don the jacket throughout the evening
- friends-who-are-family know me well enough to give me the kind of gifts that I would give myself
- my "date" who initially said no to going to dinner, cancels his previous plans and rounds out our group to a foursome
- said foursome dine on glorious food and even better conversation (except for the part when the other three try to flirt with the waiter on my behalf!)
- friends care enough to want to flirt with the waiter on my behalf
- a day ends with such complete "rightness" during the holiday season
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. (ee cummings) You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. (Nietzsche)
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Smiley Things, vol. 2
Christmas time brings more reasons to smile . . . for instance when:
YES! We did. Baby Jesus was missing for several days until I did the laundry whereupon I discovered that the "castle" where the three-year-old had talked of hiding Baby Jesus was in reality the clothes hamper in my closet.
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