TIS THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS

.......time for me to sing out love-filled Christmas wishes to my devoted blog followers wherever you are in the world.

Christmas Eve, over the years, was our day for gathering with our families for meals, opening presents and going out in the cold to Midnight Mass.  I can remember wrapping presents only hours before we'd leave our house.  

We've invited another Venny couple to join us for pizza supper tonight.  The older we get, the less time we spend in the kitchen preparing meals.  It's called choosing the path of least resistance.  It's time to invest our energy in the togetherness time, more so than in the preparation time.  Anyway, that's my spin.

In honor of Christmas Eve, I chose this Victorian era painting published in 1878 by J. Hoover & Son, a business like Currier & Ives...

Christmas Eve - 1878

The stained glass windows welcome the local ladies and gentlemen to Midnight Mass. Note the one-horse open sleigh.  The horse's posture looks like the horse is reverently genuflecting.   Notice how the spiritual scene is shown to us by the light of the full moon.  The artist included two children going along with their parents to Midnight Mass.