Merry Christmas!!

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone that has a chance to look at my blog a very Merry Christmas!

It's a time for family, travelling and enjoying each others company.

Isn't that what happened over 2000 years ago in Bethlehem?
People travelled to be together, to enjoy each other's company, share in a meal (or libation) and be with family.

Remember: "Jesus is the reason for the season".
Cute I know, but it's something I think we forget about.

Last evening I attended the Trans Siberian Orchestra concert at the Air Canada Centre.
It was awesome.
If you don't know the TSO it's not the TSO you may associate with Toronto, it's a fusion rock orchestra that takes well known Bach or Brahms and literally blows it up. There are pyrotechnics and flames and lights and it's just WOW!
The first part of the concert is a narrated Christmas story.
It was really effective and made you really think about why we are here on this planet and what we should be doing with our lives.
The 13,000 + people in attendance thought it was pretty neat too. There was a real sense of quiet and calm at the end of the Christmas story. Very neat to experience.

This afternoon I am off, with The Mother, to the usual visit to Lambeth Ontario for the Christmas Family gathering. Christmas day is spent with 25 + other family members over turkey, and the fixings in a little hamlet of Shedden, just west of London. There is much coming and going and presents and wrapping paper and catching up (some cousins I only see once a year at this event). It's fun, intense and crazy all at the same time. The Mother has spent Christmas with this side of the family since the beginning of time (save for a couple I think) and this is tradition.
This is one of the things that Christmas is all about. Tradition and being with family.

The Man is working Christmas Day and Boxing day, as he has since time began so to give others the chance to be with their families. I think that's such an amazing thing to do and a really, really nice gesture. Our Christmas is a day later on. We decide on the day and we have our own traditions and our family (Ubu LOVES opening presents).

So from my families to yours I wish you the best of the season.
Merry Christmas!