@MaNaAk it is the first Xmas without my mum. As you might know from my posts, it’s all been rather traumatic with the executor antics. My mum loved Xmas & as she was Polish, she tended to celebrate Xmas Eve rather than Xmas Day.
The Polish tradition is to have a 13 course meal on Xmas Eve - Er I won’t be doing this but tradition was that the meal started with seeing the first star in the sky. When my mum was younger, she was totally obsessed with it all & maybe we never had the whole 13 courses either but she would stress herself & me out with the preparation of the courses she did serve & there was always far too much food to eat.
As the years got on & my mum got older, there were less courses but still the same stress as then it fell to me to prep the meal ( and then do Xmas Day dinner too) but we gradually reduced what food we prepared. Now it seems that we would do anything to get that time back. White Christmas was on TV at the weekend & my mum loved the old films so even though I only caught the last hour of it, I did watch the film with nostalgia. I have felt my mum around me over the last few days & asked for a feather - as not had one for ages & lo & behold, I went to the Post Office the other day & right in my path as I was about to walk in to the shop, was a big feather. I took that as a definite sign! X
The Polish tradition is to have a 13 course meal on Xmas Eve - Er I won’t be doing this but tradition was that the meal started with seeing the first star in the sky. When my mum was younger, she was totally obsessed with it all & maybe we never had the whole 13 courses either but she would stress herself & me out with the preparation of the courses she did serve & there was always far too much food to eat.
As the years got on & my mum got older, there were less courses but still the same stress as then it fell to me to prep the meal ( and then do Xmas Day dinner too) but we gradually reduced what food we prepared. Now it seems that we would do anything to get that time back. White Christmas was on TV at the weekend & my mum loved the old films so even though I only caught the last hour of it, I did watch the film with nostalgia. I have felt my mum around me over the last few days & asked for a feather - as not had one for ages & lo & behold, I went to the Post Office the other day & right in my path as I was about to walk in to the shop, was a big feather. I took that as a definite sign! X