Comments on: Our Imperfect Christmas

By: flowers

flowers — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:30:09 +0000

(((((hugs))))) to you now *and* to your child-self. I can only imagine how disappointing and resentful that would make you feel.

I hope you find some peace in it as you navigate your way with your own family.

One of the things i like best about realizing distressful things from my childhood is realizing that I now have the opportunity to do it differently. We either repeat or change. I believe that you could change it and in that action a piece of your childhood may be healed.

love to you and yours :-)

By: Jasie VanGesen

Jasie VanGesen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:22:36 +0000

Really... all I can say is that you are a MUCH bigger person than I am. The holidays really bring out the worst of my obsessiveness and perfectionism. I turn into my mother and it makes me sad. I was never allowed to help decorate the tree and resented it greatly. .-= Jasie VanGesen´s last blog ..sleepy times are here again. =-.

By: renee @ FIMBY

renee @ FIMBY — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:12:41 +0000

Comments are closed on your newest post hon. I get an 404 message. But once you fix it I’ll be back. I love that magazine (& I love hanging out with funky people in my neighborhood & community – lucky you).

By: TheOrganicSister

TheOrganicSister — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:48:14 +0000

haha Sorry, I don’t mean to laugh but your tree is awesome! Enjoy it now cuz I know you’ll be enjoying and laughing over the memory of it forever.

I had grand ideas of doing something for Advent every day. psha I should’ve known better. I’ve found the more I contrive, the less we enjoy. So now we’re just flowing with the Go. ;)
.-= TheOrganicSister´s last blog ..Unemployed =-.

By: PureMothers

PureMothers — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:41:10 +0000

So funny and endearing. I’d never been to Apples for Poppy Annes blog- (thanks for sending me there) – but that made me laugh. Those photos are beautiful. I get what you were after. But your imperfect Christmas will be the memory you will have forever! Merry Christmas!
.-= PureMothers´s last blog ..Our Green Move =-.

By: Stacy (Mama-Om)

Stacy (Mama-Om) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:51:22 +0000

Aaahhhhhh, imperfect life. :-)

Blessings,
Stacy

By: Zanna

Zanna — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:28:27 +0000

Oh, this is so sweet and funny! I’m glad you came to a perspective that feels good. <3

And you tell Sol, that if he ever wants to go into the lighting biz (with his obviously great sense of color), I know a guy….

By: Nora

Nora — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:44:21 +0000

I am still ogling the Soft Star website. I can’t thank you enough! I rarely win anything.

We have 3 miles of old lights that we can’t find in our storage ‘system’. I bought the cold white lights by accident this year and had to return them after the wife and I agreed that it felt too fluorescent. My ‘all natural, no plastic, handmade ornament/decorations’ vibe I had going on is slightly altered by the 4′ plastic light up Santa the kids fell in love with at the thrift store last July. We are also doing advent only a couple of times a week. I feel your pain / joy. I also adore the stripey tree.
.-= Nora´s last blog ..Needle Felting =-.

By: flowers

flowers — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:31:51 +0000

I have to tell you that I just read this out loud to Stone and we both started laughing so hard. It was really good to be able to go back, if only a week later and laugh at something that was originally frustrating.

Erin-I hear you about the colored lights. I tried to boycott and Sol *insisted* on one strand and they actually really balanced the tree out–if you can believe that ;-)

By: exhale. return to center.

exhale. return to center. — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:18:36 +0000

you rock my world, hil.

seriously. thank you for this.

pre-kids i did not *allow* colored christmas lights in our house. i thought they were absolutely tacky.

we now have more colored lights in and on our house than you can imagine. it is so gaudy i could barely look at it…until i saw it through my kids’ eyes and heard them talk about how proud they are of our beautiful house and our beautiful tree.

here’s to imperfect christmases with colored lights and half-warm, half-cool, frosty-hat topped trees!!!