Holy days, holey days, wholly days

Holidays are the measuring sticks of relationships.

Do we understand each other?

Are we capable of navigating each others eccentricities?

How long can we coexist with how many people in a confined space?

Do we even like each other?

And the answer when all is said and done is that with love, all of the above are possible, even when we are being real and honest with each other, because that is almost as important as the icing on the day if we want to carry this through until the next holiday.

Strangers can survive anything for a short period of time, but families have it much harder. We are in it for the long haul, linked by this strange thing called love that carries us over the unpredictable oceans of living for years and years and years.