According to Rubi, Christmas is in the Details
I don’t know what happened this year with Rubí, but she turned into this Christmas details monster as soon as the season hit.
It was a very precious kind of “monster” no doubt, but each day she seemed to hit me with some new details on her invisible list that I needed to be doing. Her imagination and creativeness seemed to be running overtime.
Marta used to call me “Detallista” meaning someone who is meticulous with their work and gives attention to detail. It was the only word I could think of to describe Rubí this Christmas season. She jumped into her ideas with all she had, and recruited me almost daily. No time to be sick Nana, we have to be elves and get to work, seemed to be her demeanor the entire time.
There were times I was grateful for the distraction of being sick, missing John as he couldn’t make it this Christmas, and lonely for my mom this time of the year.
Each day I would wake up and she’d be ready to tell me her plans for the day.
When Rubi saw I wasn’t hanging Yaya’s old Christmas tree balls, she became sad. I explained that Ezra was at the age to grab ornaments from the tree and maybe break them.
I remember pulling out old ornaments when I was a kid and I would ask my mom, Why do you keep these old awful things?
“They were my mothers,” Mom would softly say, and I would kinda of understand.
Now I see some old awful ornaments, and even though my Christmas boxes could use the space, I can only think…
“They were my mothers….”
So I so appreciated that Rubi wanted the ornaments to be out where they could be seen.
God bless this sweet child. She took my lonely for John and Mom Christmas, and made it super special. I was never allowed to be blue, I appreciate her so much-my detallista.