Christmas Eve Frolicking Night Before Christmas Mash-Up Friday Follow!

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Happy Holidays

While I was brought up in both the Catholic and Greek Orthodox traditions, I am not a Christian. If anything, I am a good old pagan. 

With Christmas so prevalent in its secular and religious aspects it has taken me a long time to make peace with it.  But I have and wish we could maintain the goodwill and compassion we feel for each other all year and not just the period between Thanksgiving and New Years.

Hey, I never do this poem mash-up thing but I wrote Twas the  night before Christmas and it just came out! Such as it is, I present the PNR/UF night before Christmas: it is an unfinished opus and I bet it's a brain-worm and you'll be making this up like I've been all morning long!

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Mashed-Up Night Before Christmas 

Twas the Night before Christmas,

And Book Bloggers were blogging,

And Reading,

And Hopping,

and sipping Egg Noggin'

Our spouses are wrapping our gift books with care,

Almost as if To Be Reads weren't there,

On Rachel, on Jenks, on Trent and on Ivy,

On Mercy and Adam,

the Marrock, Zee and Sam,

On Meredith Gentry, polyandrist and fairy,

more than one hubby and they call her Merry.

MacKayla and Barrons, V'Lane have the fever,

On Ethan and Merit, an over-achiever.

On Dageus, and Drustan,

Adam Black, now a human.

On Alice, and Milo, on Jack and on Peter,

On Meghan and Ash now bittersweeter.

So many great characters I've met this year,

To carry me off as I read, far and near. 

The creatures great writers with pens will deliver,

Some cause me to Linger and others to Shiver.
And finally this evening when my eyelids are dropping,
I'll close up my laptop and be done with my hopping.
And, when I  fall, to the dark, dreaming night,
I'll wish for you all a year of good write!

Ta Da!

This week the Hop is on Vacation (Party on Jennifer1) but we still have the Follow. The question this week is: What are your plans for this fabulous day? And, I wish I had some brilliant response, steeped in family and tradition like some kind of Christmas movie where everyone is happy and gets along well. But, I don't. Truth is, I am one of those people who usually find this time of year depressing and disappointing. We make the best of it. My Husband and I will see our (his) Aunt and Cousins that live nearby. Tomorrow, we have to cook a few things and then dine with our chosen family: good friends. It's been so long since I have lived near my family that I am closer to my friends now. Since we don't have kids we were not magnetic enough to attract my family over these past 28 years. I could have gone to the house in FL but that is stressful enough without adding the evil that is an airport during the holidays. 

I applaud you all who enjoy this time of year. I hope our Goodwill and Compassion last throughout the year.