COUNT DOWN TO CHRISTMAS
8:00 AM..Woke up, and lo and behold! It is Christmas Eve tonight.All through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse..The last one ate some rat poison a year ago.
In the morning, we went to church for the regular Mass. No Christmas songs yet in this Dec. 24th morning mass because it was the last Sunday of Advent season...While the malls have been playing Christmas music since November, the church was still in waiting for the birth of Baby Jesus..thus no Christmas carols are being sung yet..
Yesterday, we had a choir practice at 10:00 am at church . 2 out of 4 showed up: just Kim and Caitlin..Mia and Emma did not..Reason? Mia was still in Minnesota visiting her Grandma ( Father's side ) and Emma though she loved to come can not because it was Christmas and she still have to do some Christmas shopping..maybe. But I can not give them heck for not showing up.They are are my grandaughters.
But I would not go to a Mall on a Dec. 23..No Christmas is not worth being run over by a mob rushing like a pack of wolves hungry for marked down Christmas sale items.
So went to church at 9:30 am..Sung the advent songs for the last time for 2006..Bye bye Advent songs..see you again next year, maybe end of Nov. 2007. So one mass down, 2 more to go..
12:00 noon..Checked Pang.Org..What else is there to do? Read some good postings. Started to make the line up of Christmas carols for the 7:00 pm Children's mass tonight.. Nerves are kinda shot..Will Santa arrive tonight? Will he bring at least one item from my Xmas list? If he won't I will shoot him with a 22 double gauge when he comes back next year h-h-ho-ing next time Christmas 2007..Just joking! How can you shoot someone who does not exist except in shopping malls listening to Christmas wish lists from kids who still believe in him?Oh well, to each his own...
Took a walk in the Park..The day was not so bad..No rain at least. I walked about in the Humber Valley a few miuntes walk from my house..It is a lovely area with trees with bare branches, a river and park walks still uncovered with snow. Took my cel. Chatted with a good friend while walking about..The park was almost empty. Walked for my regular hiking exercise..Good for the heart you know..I found myself in Weston main street. Entered the bakery there run by a Vietnamese. I walked in the park to shed a few calories.. The calories I lost a few minutes ago came back in form of those mmmm good smelling buns!
5:00 pm..Back in the house..Omigosh..5:00 pm..2 hours away from the Childrens Xmas pageant..Rushed the Christmas song list..Made 1 transparency for the use of the congregation ( a song which we will sing could not be found in the book ). The first ones to arrive was Bernadette my yougest daughter. She is not young anymore. She has 2 kids of her own, Dillon and Chloe..Made a fast change of clothes. I brushed my teeth AFTER I dressed up. A bit of toothpaste fell into my black pants. Cannot afford to change it. Tried washing it with a wet face towel..
6:30 pm..Was at church. Simon brought me there. Only Kim was there..And she was getting antsy. 1 out of 3! And just half an hour to go.15 mins later, Caitlin showed up..She just arrived from downtown Toronto to see WICKED, the popular stage play.
The children pageant went on without a hitch. The mass started with just the 2 of them singing..After the sermon, who would show up but Mia and Emma.. They sang the prepared carols without any hitch..While they sang O HOLY NIGHT, my daughter Michelle recorded their song in her IPod with a special microphone..Geez, the things you can do with that gizmo now a days..Esp. with the 60 Gig one...
I felt emotional while playing O HOLY NIGHT..It was the 25th time for me to play it here in Weston during its Christmas eve mass..
My 2 daughters were there at the pews. 2 grandkids are in there.2 other grandkids were with me in the front singing. Felt emotional playing the song HOLY NIGHT with the 4 belting it out the best way they can considering the circumstances..
After the mass we went home..But we were back there at 9:30 pm to finish off the 3rd mass for the day Dec. 24th..This seldom happens..We did the same songs. We heard the same sermon too..It was the 5th mass for the priests there celebrating the mass and delivering the same sermon..
Everything was over at 11:00 pm..We headed to the house where my family was. The gifts were unwrapped..We usually do the gift opening during Xmas eve..The kids would do another gift unwrapping on Christmas day in their own homes..
Hooray for Santa Claus..He did it again...
Blessed be God for giving us another Christmas day..filled with food, booze, gifts, toys..and most of all LOVE, spelled L-O-V-E..
Merry Xmas every one!!!!!!
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