firsts

This Christmas has marked a large number of firsts for me.  First Christmas married, in my own home, in a foreign land.  It was the first time I hosted a dinner party on my own, planned a large scale Christmas party, or a musical sacrament program.  It is the first time I had a green, warm Christmas.  First time I sold artwork in a public space.  My first Christmas with Mr. F.  First time to be wished a Merry Christmas in four different languages.  Perhaps the hardest has been that this was the first time ever being away from my family on Christmas.  But it was also the first time I got to have people celebrate in my home.  It was the first time I got to have someone take me and my husband out for Christmas Cokes on Christmas Eve.  It was the first time I got to spend Christmas cuddled up with my husband, plotting a week of adventures.