Holiday Focus

Holiday focus. How's that for an oxymoron?!
Kids off school, I've got lots of work on my plate. Making time to enjoy each other. Keeping on task in my unstructured world. Expectations all around. Resisting the tendency to make other people's happiness my responsibility. Trying to enjoy the both/and (an uneasy tension) without slipping into either/or (a simplistic resolution.) Smiles and stress, chores and parties, joy and obligations. It all becomes a blur. It's a good blur this year. In coming to terms with the "reason for the season," it's nice to be free from the need to pretend like we're focusing on the reason for the season. I'm planning on enjoying Christmas in all it's unfocused messiness!