I know, I know - this is way too early to be thinking about Christmas. But like it or not, four months from tomorrow Christmas will be here. I am already gearing up for it. The second weekend of September, we have a choir retreat at church. The purpose is twofold: 1 - to have a great time of fun and fellowship, and 2 - to start work on our Christmas musical.
I have already been working hard on this. Every year, I make Christmas ornaments for everyone in the choir - with the year, and the name of the musical we will performing. This will be our 13th Christmas at FCCJ - so those people who have been in the choir the entire time have 13 different ornaments with which they can decorate their tree. I try to do something different each year, and sometimes it has been interesting finding exactly the right thing. But good news, right now I have almost half of them finished, and should be able to finish the rest of them tonight.
More than any other holiday - Christmas is full of memories - and so many of them revolve around food. We also have a big Open House each year, right at the beginning of December. The house is all decorated. I do all of my Christmas baking. The sights and sounds are really something.
But unlike every single other year - this year I will not be able to eat much, especially at my Open House. A bite here - a taste there, and I'm done. I'm already talking to myself - deciding exactly what I will fix, and more importantly what I will eat. By the time the Open House gets here, I will have had over nine months of practice - and I'm confident that I can get through this, too!
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