I mentioned yesterday that day 12's prompt was "A Whole lot of Happy," which immediately I thought of the kids and their happy smiling faces at any mention of Christmas or Santa Claus. Smile and the whole world smiles back at you. One problem...BOTH of them are camera shy these days. They will not let me take their photo. I beg, I plead, I pretend to take pictures of things around them. But they are smart little people and they know when the camera is aimed at them. It took me two days to snap a photo of one of them genuinely happy (God forbid they both smile in a photo...), here is the result. Yeah, I kinda like her.
Today's prompt was "Simply Divine." No matter what holiday you celebrate, chances are there is something divine about it. There is a reverie this time of year for forces far grander than ourselves. Find a way today to translate the truth for you. Share the divinity in your life, whether it be through an obvious symbol or an overall feeling you carry.
With this prompt I thought of angels, and what they mean to the season. My mom has a Christmas tree topper that is an angel, and it belonged to my grandparents. It has been through many years and many trees, but it still shines brightly each year atop my parents tree. That angel definitely means Christmas to me, but since I didn't have that angel at my disposal today, I chose this little guy instead.
Every year I get the kids a Christmas tree ornament. I figure this way, when they have their own Christmas trees they will at least have 18 years of ornaments to put on it. I got this little angel for Zach in 2008. It was his 3rd Christmas. Zachary loves this angel. He loves that it is his, and that like him, the angel carries around a "blankie." For the first few days we had our tree up this year I could not get Zach to leave his angel on the tree. He would take it off, play with it, and put it somewhere else on the tree. I love this angels sweet face, I love his understated features, and I love that my little boy loves him so much. This is my divinity.
(On a side note, the kids now pick out their own ornaments...needless to say, goodbye days of sweet faced angels, hello days of skiing hippos and pink Care Bears.)
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