In moving this year, I left all my christmas decor in storage since I'd be at mom's and could just use hers. Sounds good right? Except that I forgot to get out the Little People nativity set that Grayson got last year from mom and dad. See, at our house we always put a nativity under the tree. It was something my ex-husbands family did. A tradition he taught me and my stepson when Will was just a little one. It was Will's job to put it out every year. And starting that first year, he put it out each time so that all the figures-no matter Mary, Joseph, shepherd or wise man-perfectly surrounded the baby Jesus figurine in a circle...each giving all attention to the most important part of the nativity. It's funny...my niece always did that as a child too. A child's innocent, pure heart gets it exactly right! Isn't God amazing!
Anyway, it was a sweet tradition that I was excited about carrying on and teaching to my boys. That's why we had gotten the plastic set so that Grayson could play with them and start setting up his own without worry of breaking anything. So you can imagine my disappointment when I realized I had no way of getting to his set that I had so desperately wanted for him to have!
Since I realized the mistake, I have debated purchasing another one (but that's money I shouldn't really spend) or even digging through storage trying to find ours (I had already done the search in the perimeter of storage. It must be good and buried in the middle of all our stuff!). So today I realize...it's Christmas Eve...guess I won't be getting it out this year...sigh...bad mom. I'm neglecting my child by not teaching him our Christmas tradition!!! Ugh! But before I could start beating myself up too bad...I decided it was...ok. And that I could be grateful...
So, I'm grateful today that my little ones are young enough to not know the "traditions" that I didn't get to this year. And that I have a lot of years left to introduce old traditions to them and time for us to create new ones too!
Merry Christmas!
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