December 2013

December flew by with lots of concerts, parties, events and too much good food! We started off the season taking Mom and Dad J to the Handels Messiah sing in at Symphony Hall. I love the words "wonderful, counselor, the mighty god, the prince of peace." It was a perfect way to start the Christmas Season. We took Mom and Dad D to go see A Christmas Carol and the dancing and music was lovely. This year our Jefferson family went to The Candlelight Christmas at This is the Place park, and our Dennis family met up at Temple Square to see the lights and the candy windows at City Creek. We bought some Christmas gifts together for each other which we usually do each year but this year Brad was Santa Clause and surprised me with a beautiful sapphire necklace that he said "makes my eyes sparkle/" I gave him (and myself) the gift of dry cleaning his shirts from here on out. I can handle most household chores but ironing- I detest! It is time to accept it and no longer fight it and Brad will have lovely crisp shirts in his closet.  At the end of the season we had our friends over to celebrate Three Kings Day and had an actual Rosca de Reyes from Mexico that our friends brought back on the plane the day before. It was our first Three Kings Day party and was fun for everyone, and Brad got the baby Jesus so Feb. 2nd we are supposed to be responsible for tamales for everyone- which in Latin America is when the Christmas season officially ends. Though we kept our tree up longer than usual by the middle of January it seems time to get excited for Valentines- we are true Americans, but why not have more reasons to celebrate?