It is five days before\u00a0 Christmas.\u00a0 After a very busy few weeks leading up to the holiday, I can finally start to relax a bit and look forward to taking the week off between Christmas and New Year’s Day. Most of my shopping is done and our holiday cards are in the mail.<\/p>\n
The wooden\u00a0 stairs out back creaked under my weight as I went down them this morning. It was a reminder, like I needed one, that it was twenty degrees out. Winter is getting underway and there is still a chance of a a white Christmas.<\/p>\n
And following tradition, I wore a red dress shirt with a green neck tie. Tomorrow will be vice versa: green shirt, red tie. It my little way of observing the season and spreading some Christmas cheer.<\/p>\n
And it also reminds me to engage with the season before the Yuletide passes me by!<\/p>\n
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