Editorial by Trudy Evans

from OKLAHOMA Corridor Magazine_December 2022

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The Thanksgiving holiday has passed and another major holiday is quickly approaching.

Bright colorful lights are beginning to light up the night. Sparkly decorations will shimmer off of tree branches. A different genre of music is playing everywhere. The littles are preparing to show off their talent for everyone to applaud at their schools. Gifts are being wrapped in pretty paper with pretty bows and name tags. Menus are being planned and reservations are being made, while searching into flight schedules. Photos are taken with littles on Santa’s lap while they tell their wishes. And littles are practicing their parts of telling the story of the reason for the season.

All these thoughts bring smiles to our faces. Might bring a tear or two also. Memories of loved ones will for sure come to your thoughts. A lot! Visits to loved ones in special living places will bring huge smiles to them. FaceTime calls will happen across the country. Some will even go to places where there only granite stones. December is a busy month. As we get older, it gets here a lot more quickly then when we were children and it also passes faster. Some of the traditions are the same but new memories are undoubtedly made. Some families will have the same number of members, others will have gained a few either by birth or marriage and some will have lost members who have become guardian angels.

Christmas is bittersweet for me. My parents and my husband are my guardian angels. But I continue to smile and enjoy the season because I remember the reason for the season is the birth of our Lord and Savior. If it were not for him, who knows where we would be!

Christmas blessings to each and everyone of our readers. We appreciate you picking up our magazines and visiting our advertisers. Without you, they would not be in business. Happy New Year as well. May 2023 be your most memorable one yet!