There\u2019s way too much to do this time of year!<\/p>\n
We just got our tree last night, so at least the house smells of Christmas even if our decorations aren\u2019t up and the stockings aren\u2019t hung. The seven-foot pine is standing straight (pretty much) in its stand, awaiting lights and ornaments and the Christmas angel that will top it all off\u2014if I can find her in the attic. But by the time homework and the dinner dishes were done last night, it was late and we all needed to get ready for bed.<\/p>\n
Alas, our tree will remain bare again tonight. While my colleagues will be dancing and dining at the Guideposts Christmas party in New York, I\u2019ll be enjoying the winter concert at our local elementary school, where a certain fifth-grader I know and love will have a solo on flute. My daughter Evie turns 10 this year, on Christmas Eve, and I couldn\u2019t very well miss her performance.<\/p>\n
But I will<\/em> miss dancing tonight with all the earth angels I work with, and celebrating this joyful (if busy) time of year with them. We are a close group, many of us longtime friends who have danced through Guideposts Christmas parties until our sides ached. Who has much time for eating when our own Nancy Galya hires such a great DJ year after year?<\/p>\n Yes, there\u2019s way too much to do during the Christmas season. And all of it proves just how much I have to be joyful about. Now tomorrow night\u2014for sure\u2014we decorate that tree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s way too much to do this time of year! We just got our tree last night, so at least the house smells of Christmas even if our decorations aren\u2019t up and the stockings aren\u2019t hung. The seven-foot pine is standing straight (pretty much) in its stand, awaiting lights and ornaments and the Christmas angel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[19,24,171],"ppma_author":[468],"class_list":["post-14147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angels","tag-angels-on-earth","tag-christmas","tag-earth-angel"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n