Medicine For The Soul by Kelly Cyr

So we had a time of Thanksgiving this past month, a time to reflect on everything we are grateful for and a time to enjoy our family members, old and new. That was how it was in my household this year!! First of all, we traveled to Colorado with my parents to stay with my Aunt Peggy for one week and then on to my sister’s house to stay with her the second week. The first setting was the big busy city of Colorado Springs and staying at my aunt‘s mansion. For days we shopped and hunted bargains all over town in the first spurt of Christmas shopping. Then at night it was luxuriant eating at restaurants that we don’t have in Montana! Like Red Lobster! That was fabulous! So we were spoiled by the big city life of half a million people in the very modern city of Colorado Springs overlooked by Pike’s Peak and the Rocky Mountains.
The second week we traveled to my sister’s mountainous home in the Rockies in Paonia, Colorado. Here it is strictly farm and ranch life in the back woods of the Colorado mountains. She showed us the buffalo ranch and the ranch that had the Alpacas, little doll-like animals that almost look part Moppet and part llama except they have these big extraordinary eyes that really look at you and fur all over that makes you want to pat them as your pet. But beware, they are wild, and will hoof you if you get into their territory! This is where you get on the ATV and wildly go over mountain paths jouncing along until your insides hurt from laughing so hard. Then at night, it is inside my sister’s beautiful mountainous home to hot tub and relax in front of her big screen TV after supping on a wonderful dinner of horderves put together by all.
There were 10 family members together for Thanksgiving. We were singing, “Happy Holidays” from the shopping for the food to the preparation of it. Then my sister has a tradition that she does with each family member before our dinner starts. Each of us must state what we are most happiest for this year at the holiday dinner table. So all ten of us confided in what we were most grateful followed by the refrain of “Happy Holidays!” by all at the table. I must confess I said that I was happiest for my sweet little granddaughter, Little Half Moon that was born on the rising half moon October 1st this fall. She absolutely remains the joy of my life.
So hoping you will have a “Happy Holidays” in your home too!! And that you will be able to be with all those that you love and treasure this Christmas Eve. As Christmas is about Our Savior who was born into the world and gave us salvation freely so that we can live on with our loved ones forever.
May you be greatly enriched and be blessed by the Christmas season.