PORCH PONDERINGS

30 DBC - September 30 = Oops - Make that November 30th

PROMPT November 30th

Wow, it's the end of the month! With Thanksgiving behind us (here in the States), and Christmas on the horizon, what, if any, are your Christmas traditions? If you have no holiday traditions, do you have any plans for this month?


I used to get excited for Christmas. I used to decorate for the season. Now I just wait for the craziness to be over. I didn't even put up a tree the past few years. My husband doesn't complain. So I guess he's not into it much either. We don't even buy presents for each other, or for anyone else. The only tradition I still have is Christmas cards. I still mail cards.

We do celebrate Christ and His birth. But we don't celebrate the crazy material madness this country seems to find as the reason for the season.

I am trying to make plans to see my daughter and her children the week before Christmas. My grandson is graduating from boot camp for the Marines in San Diego. As it stands now, I'm going by train to SF, to join my granddaughter and her boyfriend. Then we'll all go down to SD for a few days.

A few lifetimes ago I attended boot camp graduation for an Army recruit, my daughter's father. It is a big deal. And to survive a Marine Corps ordeal must be an even greater big deal.

So a train trip across the Hi-Line in Montana, across Idaho, Oregon, Washington then down California to SF. Sounds like fun. I've done this trip before. Going around Glacier National Park and then near the Sierra Nevadas is a beautiful train ride. Plus I'm going to the land of sunshine.

Maybe this year won't be so bad after all.