Epiphany

This year is the second year we’ve had a full-sized Christmas tree.  The first couple years we lived here, we’d go on vacation about this time of year so didn’t want to bother with a full-sized Christmas tree.  This year we set up and decorated the tree on Christmas Eve because we had taken a vacation up the coast to Monterey (did I bring my camera?  Unfortunately not.)  Normally we’d take down the tree around New Year’s but since we put up the tree so late, it’s still up.  Plus there are 12 days of Christmas so the tree should be up at least until the end.  And the tree makes the house smell good.

Today is the Epiphany, which is when the magi or wisemen came to see the Baby Jesus.  It also happens to be our wedding anniversary.  We hadn’t planned on getting married on day of Epiphany but it fell on the first Saturday of the year when we did get married four years ago.  Even though getting married on the day of Epiphany was an accidental coincidence, I like to put the two important events together and believe good things will always come as a result of our getting married on this day.