The Diary of Joy

Family

6. Peace, the year of the Phoenix

Dear Angel,

I have told you a bit more about all my family members before but now I want to tell you a bit more about us as a family.As you can imagine, we are the most unique family that has ever existed.

First of all, there is me the first ever fairy-elf and proud of it. Although it sure would be nice to have another sibling who is a fairy-elf. Don't get me wrong, I love my brothers and sister but it would be great to have someone exactly like me who could fully understand me. Being the only one of your kind can be exhausting sometimes.

Many different beings have different expectations of who I should be but mom and dad always say that I should only be who I want to be. They are great parents but sometimes I do wonder if I even know who I want to be.

Anyway enough about me, let's go back to the rest of the family. Mom is a fairy and dad is an elf which is prohibited and they broke every rule, went over every obstacle just to be together. To me, that sounds like true love, like their love never should have been forbidden.

Then there is the issue of humans, my brothers, and sister, living among the ones of magic, it is not officially forbidden but it is frowned upon. Honestly, I think there is no law about it just because it never even occurred to them that any magical creature would like to spend time with humans let alone adopt them. So when my parents adopted my siblings there was nothing that could be done to stop them.

Of course, the fairy society, angry as it was at mom, did try to stop her by telling her all these awful things about humans and how when they grow up my siblings would be mean to us but mom didn't allow their opinion to sway her.

She could feel that she was doing the right thing and one thing about mom is that she always trusts her instincts and in most cases they are right.

The rest of the magic society especially the elves have learned to accept her decision and they let all of us into their hearts and homes, but fairies, the ones who should have been the nicest of them all, didn't truly accept us or acknowledge our presence. All except Linky, of course, she is our ray of light in the darkness that the fairy world became for us. For her it's like nothing unusual is happening with us, she just loves all of us unconditionally and that's the most wonderful gift she could give us.

Another thing that is a bit challenging for us is the size. Yes, strange, I know but we are basically all of the different species and our expected sizes wary.

For example, mom as a fairy has a normal size that is much smaller than the rest of us while dad and I are a bit bigger and my siblings have the potential to become much bigger than all of us, being human and all that. So you are probably wondering what do we do to small this little or big problem (haha, get it? get it?)?

Well, mom and dad wondered the same thing as well and came to a conclusion that inside the house it would be best for us to be human size since my siblings couldn't change their sizes and when we went out to change the sizes according to where we were going (visiting elves or other beings).

Since my siblings are not yet fully grown they can go out like that but we did come to a conclusion that we can help them change sizes in the future when their size might scare the other creatures. It sure is strange to change sizes so much but on the other hand, I do love it because it gives me a different perspective on everything. Yes, yes, I know it sounds like I am thinking too deeply but I can't help it that's just how I am.

Anyway, another interesting thing about my family is that we love spending time together and we have a lot of interesting traditions. Well, we made the traditions so they are not so old but still, they are the traditions that we love and respect.

One tradition that we started up and that was highly unusual for the fairy world was Christmas. Having in mind their human origins, mom wanted my siblings to experience some of the more human things so that they wouldn't feel they were missing out on anything.

We were basically respecting elf traditions, fairy ones and the human ones which might seem like a challenge but we are not using all of them just a few of the traditions from each culture, in a way making our own culture.

If I am being honest my favorite thing ever is Christmas. It's so shiny and fun that I can't help but fly up and down from excitement every time the Christmas starts approaching. Decorating a Christmas tree is a dream come true for me. 

I am often given the honor of wrapping up the tree in colorful wreaths and then together we put the ornaments that as far as I understand are very different from the ones humans use but are beautiful nevertheless.

We use fairy themed ones and the ones from the elf history as well as a few traditionally human ones but we, as a family also add our flavor to Christmas. Every one of us is tasked with making one ornament that we think is representing who we are or how we are feeling and then those are put on the most prominent places on the tree.

Of course, we have very different ideas when it comes to that while Chatterbox and Mischief often times make it in the shape of some of the less popular animals or some scary things even, Peace and I choose something more serene to represent us.

Whatever we choose to make is always put on display, without any judgment or negative words and I love that. When we finish putting on the ornaments the part that is the most fun for me and mom comes. We use fairy dust to cover the tree with it.

I love how my rainbow fairy dust always make the tree alive with colors and energy while mom's golden dust gives it a deeper meaning, a sense of purpose and elegant beauty. It was as if our two differently colored dust was making the perfect balance between the serious, quiet beauty and the fun, crazy one. It would sparkle for days and I couldn't help but sometimes sit under the tree and enjoy the magnificent sight.

Sometimes having magic is such a pleasure and I feel sad that my siblings won't ever be able to use magic as much as I do. However, as I said earlier they might be able to do some of the old magic but never the true fairy magic.

I am sorry I feel really tired right now, I had a long day today. I promise I'll write to you soon.

Your friend, always,

Joy