Happy Golden Days of Yore....

 

 

Last night I watched "Meet Me in St. Louis" for the first time.  Oh, Judy Garland is so wonderful and the colors, it was so good.  In the movie, her family is getting ready to move to NYC from their beloved St. Louis and the whole family is up in arms.  The part about moving is set right around Christmas and she sings "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas."

This tune has always been one of my favorites of the holiday season.  Way back in high school my solo was from this song and I've loved it ever since.  One of the stanza's goes like this:

Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more.

Through the years
We all will be together,
If the Fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
And have yourself A merry little Christmas now. 

With this being one of our first Christmas' away, I've been thinking of all the Christmas' past.  All throughout my childhood, they were all the same.  The same parties, year after year, the same beloved faces and traditional foods.  I wrote about one of those times here.   

I hardly know how to celebrate Christmas this year because Christmas is that, those big family traditions.  I think of those "olden, golden days of yore."  We are planning on staying in Virginia for the holidays, but even if we were there with our families in Utah, it still wouldn't be the same as the magical ones of my youth because people and situations change, people pass away and families grow bigger and spread apart.  Nothing can stay the same.  

It will be a year of new traditions for us around here.  I can only hope that I can make these holidays as wonderful and memorable for my little family as mine did for me.   

Here are some of our holiday decorations (and a glimpse of our house too!)

 

Can you see her new tooth that came in this week?