Christmas Is Coming
My daughter, Cora, had to jump start me this past Saturday.
“It’s time to get the tree,” she told me.
“Oh, okay,” I replied, “I guess it is.”
“I think it would be great to get two trees this year,” she said.
“Two trees! That’s too expensive.”
“I’ll go out with Paul and we’ll compare prices between the tree farm and the hardware store. I’ll pay for one of the trees. One can go downstairs, the other upstairs.”
Now I begin to get the idea. Cora is back living at home, going to KU for a degree in design. Her area of living is downstairs. She wants a tree to light up her personal space. I also realize she’s offering to shop and pay for it with money from her part-time job.
“Alright, go ahead with your idea,” I said.
“While we’re getting the tree,” she added, “why don’t you get the lights and ornaments out. That way we’ll be ready to trim the trees right when we get back. Look around for the Christmas music, too. Then we’ll be set to go.”
I notice mother and daughter are beginning to reverse roles. Later on, while we were trimming the trees to Roth and Henson’s Flute And Harp For Christmas, Cora added, “There’s a lot of work around the holidays, which I hadn’t realized when I was young. But don’t you just love Christmas!”
“It’s time to get the tree,” she told me.
“Oh, okay,” I replied, “I guess it is.”
“I think it would be great to get two trees this year,” she said.
“Two trees! That’s too expensive.”
“I’ll go out with Paul and we’ll compare prices between the tree farm and the hardware store. I’ll pay for one of the trees. One can go downstairs, the other upstairs.”
Now I begin to get the idea. Cora is back living at home, going to KU for a degree in design. Her area of living is downstairs. She wants a tree to light up her personal space. I also realize she’s offering to shop and pay for it with money from her part-time job.
“Alright, go ahead with your idea,” I said.
“While we’re getting the tree,” she added, “why don’t you get the lights and ornaments out. That way we’ll be ready to trim the trees right when we get back. Look around for the Christmas music, too. Then we’ll be set to go.”
I notice mother and daughter are beginning to reverse roles. Later on, while we were trimming the trees to Roth and Henson’s Flute And Harp For Christmas, Cora added, “There’s a lot of work around the holidays, which I hadn’t realized when I was young. But don’t you just love Christmas!”
Table of Contents for Blog Articles
- Beginning of my Writing Life
- Should I begin a website?
- Three Steps to Creativity
- Communicating Effervescence
- The Fallen Leaves of Books
- After a Virus Has Passed
- Sex, Horses, and Breathing
- Feast for Seven Women
- Talks with My Cousin Dorothy
- What’s in a tidbit?
- The Value of Layers
- Tweaking Facts to Create Fiction
- Thanksgiving
- Thinking of Our Summer Cabin at the Lake
- Christmas Is Coming
- Jo
- Roland
- Christmas Cards
- The Pinch of Christmas
- Passed Away
- “I’m here, but the car ‘s not.”
- Elizabeth Gilbert’s Committed; A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
- About Happy Times in Norway
- Satisfied
- Innocence Lost
- Picnic in the Park
- They Don’t Make Boots Like They Use To
- Pale Nouns
- Ballet’s Jacques Revisited
- Breakfast at Dottie’s True Blue Café
- Jewels and Clocks
- Sipping Wines in the Valley on St. Patrick’s Day
- Disappeared
- Dreams and Me
- A Design Project Takes Shape
- Value
- PRETTY SHOES
- Shapes and Color Inform
- Chalk Painting on the Sidewalk
- Roommates
- The Importance of Siblings, My Cousin, and Old Friends
- Anticipation = Work + Work
- What I Didn’t Tell You in the Last Blog
- It’s Tuesday already?
- GROUPS
- Delia’s Rug
- UPNORTH AUTHORS CIRCLE
- Headstones
- Bad Backs
- My Very First Pie
- Are We Ready?
- I Can’t Breathe
- Meeting the Carvers
- FAMILY RECIPES HIT THE ARCHIVES
- A Place I Loved
- Highlights of a Trip to Madeline Island, Largest of the Apostle Islands
- What Am I Writing Now?
- Teaching Kids to Connect to Art
- Website as Forum
- ENCOURAGING WRITING SUCCESS FOR EIGHTH GRADERS
- BACK IN LAWRENCE
- A “Published Book” by Students for Students of Students Has Impact
- Thoughts from a Trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Buttercup Hill
- BENEATH THE ARC OF A DOUBLE RAINBOW
- ME AND MY SIBLINGS
- Why Learning the Ethical Culture Way Sticks
- Chestnuts
- An Apology and a Promise
- England Part I
- England Part II
- England Part III
- England Part IV
- England Part V
- England Part VI
- England Part VII
- England Part VIII
- England Part IX
- England Part X
- England Part X1
- England Part X11
- England Part X111
- England Part XIV
- Paris Part 1
- Paris Part II
- Paris Part III
- Paris Part IV
- Norway Part 1
- Norway Part II
- Norway Part III
- Norway Part IV
- Norway Part V
- Norway Part VI
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