My west coast brother has informed me that today is "Falling Needles Family Fest Day" and also the "Festival of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute."
My spouse and I unknowingly celebrated that second one last year when. four days before Christmas, we were in an accident that totaled our car (no one was hurt) and found ourselves shopping for a new car. A last minute change for sure but not too enormous since we went from one Subaru Outback to the newer model.
Happily, the only enormous change coming our way in 2026, as far as I know, is the birth of our first great grandchild. That won't be an enormous change for my spouse and myself but it certainly will be for my grandson and his wife. It's been a long time for me but I do remember the enormous changes that come with bringing that first baby home from the hospital. Your whole life suddenly revolves around this new little being and sleeping through the night becomes a distant dim memory.
As far as celebrating falling needles is concerned, my spouse and I will be sweeping up the fallen needles from my 40 year old artificial tree (even fake needles come off eventually) and consigning the tree (trunk, bald branches and all) to the garbage bin after we disassemble it on January 1. Then, sometime next week we can go shopping for a new smaller tree - 5.5 feet instead of 7 feet. I'm sure we can find something nice but it won't need to survive for 40 years. Even if we should happen to live to be 120 I don't think we'll be decorating a tree at that point in our lives.
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