A Christmas To Remember...

This is a repost from my Home For The Holidays Facebook Page...

One of my mother's last requests to me before she passed was to make sure I did our family Christmas brunch. She was so organized and the day she passed away, when we all returned to my parents cottage, there was the Christmas brunch menu ready on the table. There were also frozen cookie dough batters in the freezer. So I think this weekend I will head over to the cottage and bake those cookies with my dad and whoever else in the family wants to help out. Somehow I think she knew she might not be here for Christmas. Everything was planned out, written out on lists, recipe cards on the table as well. All the presents were wrapped under the tree, and there are many that are to each of us children from MOM. As much as I really don't feel like celebrating this year, I think it is more important to celebrate it. Christmas is about the birth of Christ and along with that being with family and friends. I know that my mom is in heaven and her spirit will be with us on Christmas day. I want her to be proud of me that I keep the family tradition of Christmas brunch going, as family was what was most important to her. I also now stop to think about what my mom would want me to do and I know without a doubt, it would be to pick myself up, dust off my knees and keep going. I will cry and mourn my mothers death on occasion which is only natural, but I will also hold my head high and keep going. It is what my mother would do and want us all to do. So each year, when Christmas comes, I will celebrate my mother's life and not her death. I will embrace it as she would want that as she knew Christmas time is one of my favorite times of the year.


On a side note - I want to thank all of those that have prayed and expressed sympathy for the loss of my mother. 
With all of the time well spent with my family and my mother these past couple of weeks, I am quite behind on my Christmas shopping, wrapping and preparations in general. If my mother were here she would just look at me and smile. She knows I do well under pressure and can pull it all together. Being that said, there will probably be more of a lapse on posts here until after Christmas. I have many plans here for the new year, with crafts, sewing projects and more. I will be laid off from my job for about 6 weeks in the new year and will using that time to get crafting! My mother will be my inspiration and maybe just maybe, I will do a series about organization in her honor. She was one of the most organized people I know!!!