T minus 14 days until Christmas and I’m not ready.  Ohh, well!  How exactly does one define “ready” anyway?  Cards all sent? Probably not even sending any this year, certainly not a photo card.  Ohh, well!  (If Christmas card sending was a sport, this would be my bye year, just don’t take me off your bye-bye list, yet!)  Presents all wrapped?  Haven’t even bought everything yet.  Ohh, well!  (To quote Kancy Nerrigan, “Why, why, why,” didn’t I buy stock in Amazon? Ohh, well!)  Irish breads and cookies baked?  Negative.  Grandma Dunn’s Christmas Marmalade made yet?  Don’t even have the jars.  Tree is up, lights are on, but not one single solitary ornament is on it yet. Ohh, well!  The good news is, our manger scene is on the lawn (Ty, Cabana boy, Joe) but we haven’t put the spot lights on it yet that shine our famous 15’ shadows on the side of our house.  Ohh, well!  Those yuge shadows are both neat and mysterious, that is, until the wind blows and Angel Gabriel takes a header down the hill.  Ohh, wellllllllllll.
Getting myself motivated this year has been worse than pulling teeth.  Ohh, ___ Don’t say it!!  You know what, it’s okay.  Why? Because it’s not just about one day, it’s not just about cards and presents and trees and cookies and glitter and, and “all those little Who’s down in”….wait, what am I saying?  Have I become you know WHO? Yikes, I do live at the top of a big hill…..hmmm,  Ohh, well!
If you step inside of a Christian church right now, (contrary to what you’ve seen in every single freakingfanelli store since Labor Day) it’s not Christmas yet, it’s the Season of Advent.  Yesterday started the second week of the Advent season out of a total of four, which, hockey widow here, knows it is exactly 1/10 of the entire National Hockey League (NHL) season!  When Christmas falls on a Monday, as it does this year, the 4th “week” is only 24 hours long.  If only the NHL playoffs were only 24hrs long, I’d be one happy gal!  (I still don’t get why hockey players are allowed to punch the heck out of each other?  What is this teaching our kids? At least take off your gloves and helmet and clock somebody really good!  I am so just kidding, I know, it’s really well!)
Back to Advent.  Yes, Advent, where we Christians are preparing with excited anticipation to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World!!  (What a title!! Stick around till Easter and I’ll tell ya how he earned it!)  HE has come to save ALL of us.  What an ADVENTure!
In light of my Martha St. Ewart decorating skills, I truly never lose sight of His glorious purpose.  HE is with me 24/7, with of course, the occasional slip up where I take off my helmet and gloves and throw a few punches!! Wait, wait, wait,…I mean, take off my hat and gloves and make a few lunches!!  Yes, lunches! Eventually,  I’ll get the Christmas decorating, shopping and wrapping all Dunn, maybe just in time to say,  Happy New Years!!  Ohh, well!
Xo, Kate   12/11/17
Kate’s Flight of Ideas 