Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve was so peaceful and quiet. Stars were shinning in the sky. After a long day excitment, my kids finally went to bed and fell into sound sleep. I wondered if they were dreaming about Santa bringing them gifts.
I quietly took the Christams gifts to the living room and started to wrap them. My thoughts drifted away. My kids have grown up so fast. It seemed that it was yesterday that they were still babies. I held them in my arms, rocked them to sleep and sang them lullibies. My kids have brought me the joy of motherhood.My husband has given me the happiness of being a wife. I am so blessed with such a happy family. Anthony Brandt once said: "We start and end with the family." I remembered another interesting interpretation for family. The word family equals "F(ather), M(other), I,L(ove), Y(ou)."
After I wrapped up the gifts, I started to put the small gifts in each kid's Christmas stocking, the bigger ones under the Christams tree. I am glad that my little ones still believe in Santa. They wrote their wish lists to Santa and baked Gingerbread cookies for Santa, too. I found a note besides the cookies. It was my daughter Beibei who wrote to Santa.
Dear Santa,
Please eat the cookies and prove Dongdong wrong!
Love,
Beibei
There was a "P.S" on the back of the note, it read:
P.S. He said you do not eat them.
While I was reading the note, I could not help laughing. I ate one of the cookies and put the rest away. Oh, my kids are so adorable. I love them so much. It is going to be a gorgeous Christams. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Rebecca Lin 2010 Winter In USA |
京趣，
你的留言就猶如一篇優美的散文，原來你住在北京呀，我總算知道了你為何取網名為“京趣”了。北京的雪景一定很美，我想象著長城上的白雪，該多麽壯觀呀。不由地吟誦起毛澤東的《沁園春·雪》：“北國風光，千裏冰封，萬裏雪飄。望長城內外，惟餘莽莽，大河上下，頓失滔滔。山舞銀蛇，原馳蠟象，欲與天公試比高。須晴日，看紅裝素裹，分外妖嬈。”
我從小在國內的南方長大的，很少見過大雪。來到美國的第一個冬天，我可見到了我生命裏的第一場大雪，那可謂是冰天雪地，當時我就讀的學校都停課了一周呢，那年的雪，也是俄亥俄州70年來最大的一場雪。
Have a nice Tuesday,
Rebecca
Yeah, I could not agree with you more.
Silent Night - Richard Clayderman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBGPt9x_TQE