Christmas Day 2012
Dec. 25th, 2012 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kribbanMerry Christmas!
My parents have been here since the 22nd and leave for my brother's tomorrow night.
It's the first time we are celebrating Christmas at my place and we planned it way back in 2010.
When you plan something this far in advance you are bound to be disappointed when it happens. In my case my OCD has been acting up lately, obsessing over evil and negative thoughts and stressing out about cleanliness. I had an episode yesterday morning related to laundry that I don't feel proud of, exactly. But it's over with! But I'm used to it by now. In 2009, both on Christmas and on my 30th birthday party I was thinking about The Holocaust and the evil of man. And I still have happy memories of those holidays!
We ended up having a lovely afternoon and evening. We ate just the right amount of delicious food, divided presents, watched a movie and the Midnight Mass starring the Pope (the Catholics across the canal finished up half an hour earlier than the Catholics on TV) and had dessert.
Today, Christmas Day, we went to church and it was perfection. It was the first time we were in my church together and it made me very serene and blissful. I really feel like it is Christmas now.
After we went home and drank hot Glögg and ate the last of my Saffron bread. Tomorrow night they leave for my brother's (I'm not invited there for some reason) and then I'm alone for 48 hours until my New Year's guest comes. I plan on making the most of the rest of my parents' visit!
My parents have been here since the 22nd and leave for my brother's tomorrow night.
It's the first time we are celebrating Christmas at my place and we planned it way back in 2010.
When you plan something this far in advance you are bound to be disappointed when it happens. In my case my OCD has been acting up lately, obsessing over evil and negative thoughts and stressing out about cleanliness. I had an episode yesterday morning related to laundry that I don't feel proud of, exactly. But it's over with! But I'm used to it by now. In 2009, both on Christmas and on my 30th birthday party I was thinking about The Holocaust and the evil of man. And I still have happy memories of those holidays!
We ended up having a lovely afternoon and evening. We ate just the right amount of delicious food, divided presents, watched a movie and the Midnight Mass starring the Pope (the Catholics across the canal finished up half an hour earlier than the Catholics on TV) and had dessert.
Today, Christmas Day, we went to church and it was perfection. It was the first time we were in my church together and it made me very serene and blissful. I really feel like it is Christmas now.
After we went home and drank hot Glögg and ate the last of my Saffron bread. Tomorrow night they leave for my brother's (I'm not invited there for some reason) and then I'm alone for 48 hours until my New Year's guest comes. I plan on making the most of the rest of my parents' visit!
