Christmas red is everywhere

Christmas RED is everywhere 

Noel ...Noel

In the home....

...in the fields...

But i believe that although we all try hard, nature still does it best..... 

My one and only daughter is coming from Sydney to visit me for Christmas, I am under strict instructions from her to put up a Christmas tree and some decorations...

I don't real get "into Christmas" until the very last minute usually and then, I think it was a whole lot of fuss...too commercialised for my liking...
 Christmas is meant to be for family togetherness, but too often this "togetherness is forced upon some, and causes stress and disharmony...

For me the Christmas "togetherness" is about being with whom you really want to be with, for they can be family, or friends or new acquaintances...it MUST be peaceful and all gathered must really wish to be present... 

I see Christmas mostly for children, when they believe in Santa, for the excitement in their eyes, their anticipations for the presents, for the chocolates and other special goodies to eat, for the playing with other children's, for the spoilt from their grand-parents.....

I am waiting for Christmas with my grand-children one day...., with their noises, their naiveness about Santa... all the make believe about Christmas which goes only with children around...I am "in waiting".....Christmas makes me sad...
 

In the meantime I am really looking forward for  MY GIRL to come and visit her maman, and
 for my girl  I have put a little Christmas tree up all in gold and red , spread some more red and gold baubles around  and even laid a tiny nativity scene..baby Jesus is not in the crib yet...not until Christmas eve..
for my girl I will get some oysters,
for my girl and I, I will bake 2 poussins  with all the roasted vegetables AND the chestnuts just the way she likes it, just the way I have made it since  she was a little girl, the way I made it when we were a united  family of 4... back in Australia

But it will be different this year, we used to have Christmas in the heat of Sydney and there... I used to try to bring a bit of France in it...this time we WILL be in France together : our first Christmas in Europe together and she is 32...beautiful thought !....

So we will have a "pre- Christmas" dinner just the two of us when she arrives in 2 weeks and on Christmas day we will have a big English Christmas feast near Cambridge with our adopted family with the very same "grown up " children we used to share Christmas in Sydney...long time ago....there two UK grand children will be there...another to be born soon...
We will miss our dogs to dress up in their Santa suits...but will have a nice thought for them..

This writing has brought melancolic tears to my eyes...silly sod!...
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namaste ...