Closing The Holiday Season

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It has been a very intense weekend. On Friday night, Anna and John were consuming my Christmas gift for them: a Broadway show, a hotel night, and babysitting. Later on Saturday, we got together with them, my mom and Igor for the last Christmas presents exchange. I postponed my Christmas tree removal until Sunday afternoon so that we could open the presents by the tree.

I told the girls that the tree was coming down so they could take everything that they could find on the tree. To my surprise, when I took down all the ornaments, I found two unnoticed chocolate ornaments, one candy cane, and two gingerbread cookies.

Also, I had a scary moment when I could not find my cucumber on the tree! I mean actual “mine” – the one I brought from Russia, the one I had since as early as I can remember. I took the flashlight and finally found it, along with one more lost ornament – the skates from Ireland.

The last look at my mantel and the cards before taking everything down

I took down everything, all the lights and all the other house decorations. The tree was still so fresh, dripping some resin and smelling the forest and the holidays! I couldn’t be happier with this year’s tree!

I am never sad when I put Christmas decorations away. They’ve been up for a month, and I am ready to say goodbye. The day I remove the decorations and the tree is out feels like the actual start of the New Year!

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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