Love Poems
We had a wonderful Christmas this year - calm, relatively stress-free, and full of togetherness. One thing I have always tried to instill in my children is the importance of family - being there to support each other no matter what. This year, my youngest showered all of us with her love and demonstrated her belief in the connectedness of family. I knew she'd been working on Christmas gifts for all of us - she always hand-makes everything, usually starting in August! This year, she asked me for some of my old canning jars - I have a huge box of them in the garage - but she kept mum about why she needed them. The closer it got to Christmas, the more often she mentioned needing to work on " PAPOP ," her name for the gift she was making for all of us. I could tell she was getting concerned about finishing in time, so I casually mentioned that she could wait and give whatever it was to each of us for our birthdays - but she insisted this wasn't possible. I thought she w