Merry Christmas All

I hope you all have a great day. R and I went to see a movie yesterday...this is, after all our holiday time...with the exception of feeding cows everyday, this is the time of year when we have the least amount of work to do, the lull before the storm, if you will.  Calving starts mid-January and we try to take advantage of the spare time to do some fun stuff.   Catch up on our movie seeing. On Thursday we went to see Little Fockers, and it was pretty funny...but yesterday before going to R's nephews place for a Christmas eve dinner we went to see THE KING'S SPEECH and Oh My God...it was great...the acting was superb...the movie builds with anguish, at such a dark time in history...only to leave  you filled with such a lifting of the spirit...up lifted...yes, that's how I felt at the end...I wanted to go out and conquer something... it was awesome... so I would recommend it to anyone...if you can only see one movie this year...this is the one to go to, I think.

On a completely different note...... has anyone else noticed how the population is dwindling...I mean you probably haven't what with all the immigrants coming to Canada...but I meant the size of the average family...I was just remarking on this the other day to R...doing this genealogy made me aware that the size of a normal family is completely different than it used to be even only 50 yrs ago.   Couples used to have six or more children...and then in my generation it was down to two to four and now seems like one child is the norm, what's next is even too scary to think about...but couples not having any children could be the normal thing...and where would that leave us... somebody needs to be having babies..... should I tell you why this bothers me....

I grew up in a family where 12 children were born, although we did not all grow up together...there were 5 that I did grow up being a part of.  There is a certain comfort in that I think....a buffer or cushion...you feel some sort of connection to at least a handful of people...that is an important thing to have I believe.  Even now, at my middle years I feel such a loss in my parents deaths and that of one brother...like my grasp on something is slipping...and I don't want to lose it...but it seems inevitable that I will.

I say this with this thought in mind.....what must an only child feel....to not have the cushion of family around them...to know that once the parents have passed on...what does he have a connection to...how singular that must feel. an island in the ocean...
It makes me sad then that THAT child won't take advantage of the family connections he does have, like cousins and aunts and uncles. 

So you can probably guess where this is leading and I promised myself I wouldn't thing about it again...   I've been awake since 4 am, after waking from a bad dream, so humour me... I am tired and afraid to go back to sleep..you could even accuse me of rambling...god forbid...

Don't forget that I am going with R to some friends place for our Xmas dinner...and I should be full of weird stories for tomorrow... take care all and we'll talk again soon.