Reflections on Christmas

Hi everyone. This post is a #Blogmas bonus of sorts! Although my 25 day challenge ended on Christmas Day itself, I felt that a follow up was itching to be written. As it made sense to add the post to my Blogmas section I see this as Post 26.

Blogmas and its effects

When I put my list of Blogmas posts together, I thought that it would be a fairly straightforward set of articles. I mean, I was writing about my favourite time of the year and I pride myself on being something of an expert. What I ended up experiencing was a more emotional effect than I ever imagined. Some of the articles went into my personal history and the way that I have tried to make Christmas as good as possible for my children. I realised in a way that I perhaps had never realised before, quite how important it has become over the 30 years and more of family life. These occasionally silly things have become closely attached to how I see myself and perhaps how I am seen by others. Over the 25 days I revisited books, films and music that have had a huge impact on me.

My favourite Blogmas effect, however, came courtesy of my long term crush Isla St Clair, who told me how much she had enjoyed my post about her fantastic Christmas album! My 14 year old self would have been over the moon with that, and my much older self experienced a definite quickening of the pulse so the crush is still present and correct!

Christmas 2022

This year has been a lovely, relaxing time with my family around. I never take the time with them for granted, or at least I hope I don’t, but this year definitely seemed to affect me a little more than usual. By looking back at the amount my times with my wife and children has meant to me, I was reminded to live in the moment just a little bit more.

Thanks for the comments, the support and the interest. Happy New Year one and all.