Day 11

Today is day 11 in the twelve days of Christmas. I am going to start taking some decorations  down   :(
but leave up the most important ones until tomorrow. I usually like to leave up the manger scene, for sure, because that is what it is all about. The Christmas tree will stay but I have alot of other little things that need taking down.
What is  hard is that Christmas went very fast. Even with adding twelve extra days more than what the commercial world does it just seems short. I did notice that Hallmark has continued Christmas movies to play after Christmas. That was really great because some of the movies I only caught part of earlier because of so much busyness of shopping and baking and traveling.  What I really like is that at church on Sundays we will continue through the life of Christ. We will soon celebrate his baptism and then when we get to ordinary time we will continue through the life of Christ with other events that occurred and those  will help us grow spiritually until we come back around again next year to celebrate once again the birth of our Lord.