as the christmas festivities have quickly came to a screeching halt....and as the huge task of redecorating my home to it's boring self before,...... comes drawing near....i can't help but think what my grandma did in heaven on christmas...this was her second christmas in paradise along with many others of my family members...... makes me wonder what christmas is like in heaven.......is it christmas everyday? did she have all of her family that have gone before close to her? did she get to sit at the feet of jesus?..........here on earth....oh how she loved christmas.....any holiday really...any holiday that would have any reason for her to have her family near.......i remember as a little girl peeking up over the dessert buffet table and seeing every kind of pie imaginable....i promise she made everyone's favorite.....and the food....oh i can still smell it now...things sure have been different without her here anymore....do you ever wish you could rewind things?.........just even for a day?..........go back to when things were simpler.....when everyone you loved was healthy and here with you?........when everyone you loved could be around you to spend the day doing whatever it was that made you happy for the moment.......i sure do....i would rewind it back to when i was 6 or 7 years old....it was christmas at grandpa and grandma urban's ranch....snow covering the prairie....kids running around everywhere...grandma cooking in the kitchen with all the aunts by doing whatever they could to help...uncles sipping coffee and grandpa chasing us kids around....simpler days...no worry of stuff or presents...no worry about who does what better and who got the best deal on whatever new thing it was that year....just family....having everyone there...healthy, happy and alive....that would be my day....what would be yours?...........here's wishing eveyone had a wonderful christmas....and praying for health and happiness for the new year........grandma...we all miss u terribly but we know you are in perfect peace and we know we will see you again some day...i hope you and grandpa, and cole and ardell had a great christmas in heaven...we love you!
