Christmas
Baking
November 29, 2017
Today is the day scheduled for my girlfriend and I to
get our Christmas baking done. Despite us doing this for many years together it
always seems like it takes forever and that it’s a monumental task. This year
was no different but it seemed like we might have finally fine tuned our
timing.
As we were taking turns rotating cookie sheets and
icing whatever it was that needed to be iced a Christmas carol came on. What do
you know it was my mom and grandma’s favourite Christmas song, ‘Pretty Paper’ by Roy Orbison.
I am not kidding you every time that I hear this song,
I instantly think of my mom and grandma. I told my girlfriend this and was
explaining to her how my grandmother would stay up all night Christmas eve and
prepare the Christmas feast for the family. How she would set the table with
her pretty linens and fancy dishes and would listen to Christmas carols.
I wasn’t around for all of this but these are the
memories that my mom had of her mom and she loved to share them with me. I
liked that she passed these little stories from her childhood down to me. At
least when I do something Christmasy, I know where I might have gotten it from.
Anyhow as I’m telling this story to my girlfriend we
were on opposite ends of the kitchen and I must’ve stopped what I was doing and
started to stare into space as I was telling her this story as I realized that
I was starting at her fridge. I stopped and looked over at my friend and said “wow,
I can’t believe that I didn’t cry when I told you that story”. To my dismay, it
was my girlfriend who was crying and in her tears said “that was such a
beautiful story”.
I think it is too and after some consoling on my part I
agreed with her and said but it’s a happy story that I can carry the tradition
on. I think both my mom and grandma would be proud. I suspect that every time
my girlfriend hears that song she will think of my mom and grandma and me. I’m
glad that I could be a part of a story that has been going on for three
generations now.
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