Kerri's Blog

Christmas time happiness

I love to help the people around me to be happy, I love to see smiles break out spontaneously in the joy of moments in spite of all that might be happening to make life feel hard. Christmas time encompasses a time when family and friends break themselves away from the demands of life to come together and relish the fact that we have one another. Christmas, for me, is a favorite time of year. 

Things have changed for me, in many beautiful ways, having a child has sobered me greatly. I feel a sudden desire to simplify, so that I can really relish what we have, I have this great difficulty finding joy in finding things for people as gifts, knowing that we are all VERY rich in our materials, but some of us are quite ragged in emotional well being. I adore giving to people, I absolutely love the element of surprised and delight, the time that is spent thinking intimately about each of the people I want to give to is SO much fun, but the actual act of using material goods as the source of delight isn’t working for me as much as it used to. 

Right now, especially being so far away from so many of my dear and loved friends I just want to share in time, stretch out and be with everyone.