Diligence! You say diligence? Yes, diligence. You see I’ve
been married to Karen for 35 Christmases now and every year she ‘diligently’
works her masterful hands to create Christmas Tree Ornaments for eleven. This
includes seven grandchildren, three children (with spouses) and ourselves. Some
years she is able to find some ornaments at stores and just place a few finishing touches, but most
often they are from scratch, works of her own two hands. In it I always see her
joy in crafting, but more significant is her love for her kids and grandkids.  |
| 2014 Christmas Ornaments |
Currently she is finishing the last of this year’s ornaments
of angels. They are gold on red fabric, white on green fabric and light blue on
navy blue fabric. They have taken many hours…many days for completion. As she
is wrapping up this last one, the thread is giving her quite a bit of grief and
I hear her say to herself (not that she ever talks to herself you see :) ), “Probably crying
would help!”, or “This is so much fun right now. Don’t know if I’ll ever get
over it. Nobody should have this much fun in the morning.” Yet, she never
stops, never loses the desire to complete this gift of love for her kids.
I’m not sure that they’ll ever fully appreciate the amazing ‘diligence’
that their mother and grandmother year in and year out put forth in these
ornaments. On Christmas day will it become just ‘one more’ thing to unwrap, ‘one
more’ gift to set aside, perhaps ‘one more’ item to let go of as time slips by?
Though they won’t be placed on our tree this year due to being south in Puerto
Vallarta, you can be sure that if we reach 50 years of marriage there will be
fifty ornaments diligently made by Karen placed upon our Christmas tree.
The second song is the one that she is singing to herself as she finishes the last angel... :) It just seemed fitting...
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