A blessed Christmas

In my family, this is usually a fairly quiet day. We will have church this year, of course, and our plans are to open gifts when my brother and sister-in-law arrive in the afternoon. (Christmas dinner is roast beef, which fortunately requires minimal work once it's in the oven).

One of the things I've really grown to appreciate as an adult about holidays is that they are a day where everything stops. There's no work to be done, everything is quiet, hopefully no one has to travel very far.

It's good, once in a while, just to be able to stop.

I hope, if you are celebrating today, that you are having a wonderful, peaceful day.

(Images are free Victorian-era clipart from Averyl's Attic)