Christmas 2012

Christmas 2012 has come . . . and gone!  It was much more commercialized than we remember in the years before we left for Guyana.  Everything, everywhere was about Santa Claus rather than about He whose birth we are supposed to be celebrating! 

Besides shopping, wrapping, mailing and cooking, we enjoyed having Kris here for a short visit in early December and having approximately 70 ward members and neighbors come to see our decorations and partake of our cookies and punch as one of four homes in our annual Christmas Around the Ward!  We put up our village above the stove in the kitchen and spread the Christmas cans around the house.  We also attended our ward Christmas party, a Relief Society Christmas dinner, a fun Rotary Christmas party at the St. George Art Center building . . . and went to lunch or dinner with several friends.

Stacy and her family came from dinner on Christmas Day.  We ate too much and laughed until our sides ached playing “Minute to Win It” – reminiscent of several such YSA activities in Guyana – and Skyped with family members far away!

It was a fun holiday season – our first traditional holiday season in the last three - though we missed having more members of our family here.  Christmas 2012 concluded on Boxing Day (December 26) with cataract surgery – a simple and quick little procedure which is expected to successfully clear up my foggy vision.  Cataracts develop for a number of reasons, but in my case it was as a result of the gas put in my eye to repair the macular hole.  I have had blurry, fuzzy, cloudy eyesight for more than six months and haven’t been able to drive at night because of the glare from oncoming headlights.  I’ve also struggled with a sense of having something in my eye. 

I have hope my sight is now restored.  Skilled surgeons are truly a gift beyond measure!  Merry Christmas.