My sister-in-law is an "old soul". And, no, I'm not calling her old! An old soul, I think, is some one who is wise, wise beyond their years. They are spiritually wise, emotionally wise and just plain smart. Smart about life, smart about relationships, smart about people and smart about almost everything.

I had the Christmas blues last night. I don't even know where they came from; but, it was out of no where and I became quite wistful. I was driving home from running errands and blaring the song, "Oh We Need A Little Christmas," I love that song, so much that I put it on repeat and only listened to that song on the drive home.

Ghosts of Christmas Past flooded my memory (good ghosts, that is) as the song played and played and played. It's a great song.

It's amazing to me the gamut of emotions one can feel throughout the holidays. One can experience the "high" of the season while at the same time, feel the low. And, with the holidays, I don't think there is any in between. The feelings do not ride in the middle of the spectrum, everything is amplified and that is why the holidays can be a tough time for some.

So after dinner, I called my sister-in-law to make sure that she was still speaking to me after I insulted her on my blog yesterday by saying that she likes Tom Brady. That was mean of me. I should never accuse anyone of such a thing!

As luck would have it, she got the joke and is still speaking to me, which is a good thing, because if she wasn't I would have had to drive up to her house wearing my reindeer antlers and my favorite Christmas sweatshirt and hurl pumpkin muffins at her until she spoke to me!

Anyway, as we were talking, the floodgate that was my mouth opened and out poured all of the Christmas blues that were lingering in my subconscious! My sister-in-law has an angelic, harmonious voice and when she began responding to my distress it felt like an angel's wings lifted me up and there I was on the Christmas high by the time we hung up the phone! It was amazing, she said all the right things, and she was not saying them just to say them, she was saying what she meant.

I am one blessed girl to have a sister-in-law like her!

I hope that this season, so far, has been good to you and that you are finding the good that is in this season. I hope that you have some special people to share this season with, as well. Take care, folks.