Wednesday, December 26, 2007

It Was Good

All of it.

Christmas Eve at my church, sweet and rich and full of color and light and beautiful music and, I hope, real wonder.

Returning home after church without my children, who spent the night with their father, but to my Beloved, who waited for me. I cooked. She has this thing about me cooking. It's good.

We opened a bottle of 1999 Cakebread Cellars Benchland Select Cabernet Sauvignon, a gift to her from a friend. It was astonishingly good. We opened just one or two gifts. She loved hers so much that she asked that we enjoy it right away (the DVD of "La Vie En Rose," a harshly beautiful film about Edith Piaf). That kept us up until about 3 AM.

On Christmas day we awakened, exchanged gifts, and then waited for my children to return. They did. And we enjoyed together a meal of my mother's recipe for spaghetti sauce, meatballs and garlic toast. While it simmered we watched "While You Were Sleeping," a favorite Christmas movie and one of my daughter's gifts.

Chocolate cake with ice cream completed our meal. We finished off the Cabernet, watched the lights on the tree glowing. It was a good, good day. God has most generously filled my life with love and joy.

Merry Christmas to all of you.

8 comments:

LittleMary said...

so glad it was good. love you my dear.

RevDrKate said...

Thank you for sharing this sweet day of blssings with us. I'm so glad you had this gift.

Barbara B. said...

Wow -- That sounds absolutely wonderful!

Dr. Laura Marie Grimes said...

What they said, dear Cecilia.

Many blessings for this second day of Christmas.

Presbyfruit's History Bits said...

What a perfect-sounding day. I especially like the idea of a Christmas spaghetti dinner. It beats turkey and stuffing any day.

Diane M. Roth said...

love to you. sounds like a wonderful Christmas, full of blessings.

more cows than people said...

oh good, i'm glad it was so good. and yes, i was planning to say that before i read lm's comment.

and i was going to say i love you too.

Jan said...

It sounds like a lovely day and evening for you, Beloved, and your children. I'm so glad.