Simply Christmas!

My Christmas memories are about aromas of a traditional  tea  of fruit that provides warmth during  our cold afternoons during December,  the red Poinsettias and  bright lights that provide that special feeling of happiness during all the season.

 

I remember very well our Christmas tree that mom and Grandma from Mexico decorated with so much care, and the nativity!, each figurine had a special place, waiting for the arrival of a very special baby.

When I try to explain all that to Champy, I can not find the way to describe the joy that gave us to be together as family between all those little details, it is as when there is party and the menu is totally based on carrots or  when you can walk and smell other dogs messages after many days of not having a chance to put your nose outside, Christmas is something amazingly special!!.

When Champy watches television, he can not understand  the relationship between Christmas and shopping, lists of gifts, and the excessive spending of the dates. Some  days ago watching a TV show, someone said that Christmas is a bad bussiness, but I don't remember that, Christmas is not a bussinness. 

Christmas is the celebration of a birth and the commemoration of being alive. I can't believe that this is the third Christmas story I write since I started my blog!, life flows through my paws, and I  still feel so excited by small details such as mom and dad’s photos,our early walks or daddy’s hugs.

So today dear Champy, I'm going to explain how I remember Christmas:

Christmas is the seasson that begins with the month of December, when everyone wants to finish projects to start new cycles that allow them to plan  a better future.

Christmas is when friends and family are really important, as in any other time, but in a special way, that’s the reason we wish them health, peace, and love. They are families getting together from far away just to sit down in the same room to tell stories, celebrate triumphs and express sadness by the bad things. These  kind of family meetings sometimes, are only possible during Christmas season.

Christmas is the arrival of hope, under the name of a child who has so much power to join persons from many places in the planet, it is the smile of a child who found shelter under the cold of winter and the brightness of a star that guides the lost hearts from the horizon.

Christmas is peace even in the middle of armed conflicts and the beauty of the colorful lights, odors from kitchens sharing recipes that you only can enjoy during these days.

Christmas is getting up early with the same hug that mom gives us every day and a kiss that cheerfully tells us: “it’s time to go out and walk and plan new adventures!",  but this day our hugs adds "Merry Christmas!”.

Christmas are songs, some filled with joy and others with solemnity and fervor to fullfill with love and peace our hearts.

Christmas are memories of those who left us and a special joy for the time we had them around us. 

For this reason, dear Champy, we must thanks for being together, having mom and dad, our grandparents, all our friends, always around us celebrating our victories and mourning our failures, giving us encouragement to continue every single day.

It is time to give joy and wait anxiously to what is to coming. So don't get confuse Champy, shopping do not make us happier, because that's not Christmas, but family and friends do.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!