And the season goes on

 

I give thanks for being able to buy presents for my family. Thanks God.

That said, let's enjoy the process and the season.

How good it is to look for things, to do window shopping and admire the decorations.

To feel well in the spirit of the season, let's stroll by those wonderful times from the past shown in magazine covers and advertisement.

It was such an wonderful time.

I do feel really well watching those illustrations.

Let's go.

Notice the cloths, the environement, the joy as everybody feels the Christmas season, the men rising the Father Christmas, the boy happy watching it, the women strolling and the happy couple in the left corner.

I can feel I'm there. In my mind, in my soul, I am one of those. Such wonderful times.

People arrive at the store, looking everywhere and thinking where to go.

Up the stairs, full of enthusiam, looking to each side, watching the things to buy and the people around. Such anticipation.

Some full of presents already while others arrive all happy.

Enough, I have enough, let's go home.

I'm going home, I'm just getting there.

How good it is to go back home, to see, approaching, the light in our home.

Thanks be to God.

Shopping and wrapping

Since October I have been Christmas shopping and a lot of shopping I did !

As I work full time, I have mostly Saturdays and Sundays for doing it so yesterday, after Mass, I head for the mall and stay there for a couple hours or more and I have lunch, or a kind of it, on the way, between shops, because I had no time to lose.

I'm quite pleased as I managed to buy things for all even if I intend to go back to buy some more. A lot  of money was spent but I did it wisely and I am very happy with myself. I don't buy on expensive shops and I always can find nice things for a good money.

I was so lucky that I managed to buy already most things.

We are a big family for European standards. Add to my children my parents, sisters and brothers, real and in law, and nephew and you'll have a lot of people to buy presents for and around the table on the days of Christmas.

So I have been wrapping ! I'm saying this all victorious because I'm doing a good job: instead of postponing day after day on wrapping I have began already and very well I am in that.

Even if I intend to buy more, I must say that I bought already quite a lot of presents. I will not leave them to last hour marathons, I began already and a lot of them are wrapped.

Oh, happiness.

I intend to keep posting about the antics of Christmas time being it shopping, wrapping, planning and cooking.

Isn't this a wonderful time of the year ?! I give thanks.