Greetings, loyal blog followers, as well as anyone else whose boots stumbled upon this blog on Christmas. I wish you peace and good tidings, as well as…
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\n…boots for your feet.<\/p>\n
Giggle.<\/p>\n
I look around my home, and see contentment. My mother-in-law whose health has improved — so much so, she can be with us this Christmas. She loves what I cook, and eats and eats and eats. A compliment to my culinary skills. (That, or she’s just always hungry!)<\/p>\n
I gaze upon my sister-in-law, who with her husband, my twin brother, has been visiting almost a month now. She is such a sweet person, and very intelligent. I love the long conversations I have had with her and certainly understand why my brother married her. She’s truly special.<\/p>\n
My twin brother had quite an ordeal during his nine-month assignment in a war-torn part of the world. He has needed “us time” and I have done my best to be there for him as he has always been there for me. He is such a terrific man. Intelligent, strong, yet sensitive and loving. The best (twin) brother a man could ever have.<\/p>\n
I see him relaxing more and more, and re-learning to enjoy life again. Though his lens of how he will view the world has certainly changed, his intense love for those most important to him has only strengthened. <\/p>\n
He has become even closer to his wife, which is a great thing. While I will miss him when he returns home to Italy in a week, I think he is ready to return to the home he and his wife have built.<\/p>\n
Throughout the past weeks, I have visited a lot of my family. Brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews, and “the greats.” I am blessed with a truly loving, caring, and thoughtful family. They love me and I love them — both ways, equally, and intensely. <\/p>\n
Finally, I hold the hand of the man I love. We are two peas in a pod, two men on a life journey as one. I am at peace and contented, as he is.<\/p>\n
Merry Christmas to one and all. <\/p>\n
Life is short: be at peace and share good will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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