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Weather challenges are everywhere in Seattle. Just today I almost got stuck in the snow. My brother lives in Portland where they are really snowed in. He, his wife and child come up every year, but this year its just not going to happen. My brother and I often speak to each other through quotes of old TV shows and movies. This was no different. He said, quoting Santa in Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, “We’re going to have to postpone Christmas”.

 
So my brother and I kept talking on the phone about it. This will be a virtual Christmas. We email, phone, exchange family photos. We agreed it wasn’t worth risking life and limb for us all to see each other in person, like we have for every year of our entire lives. After all, as adults, our Christmases don’t really change much. But our kids are another matter. A friend of mine said about her child “They are little markers of time”. That they are. And we’ll work at keeping their Christmas as special and as real as we can.
Merry Christmas Everyone!