I luv Christmas!!!!!!!!!!! Everything. People keep trying to steal my joy and it's been a rough
year and I think family should be supportive. Even if they don't share your view support can
be crucial to a happy holiday! My husband and I both lost our parents this year within
3 months of each other april and July. We have been going back and forth from my mom's to our house in Oh which we are trying to sell and you can imagine how great thats going.
We thought we sold our house to investors 4 years ago in Ga. and they were suppose
to pay the payments for the life of the loan and 10 months ago stopped and now it's in
foreclosure in our name. But I am at my mom's I feel peace and I'm happy. We bought our first real tree in years from the place we always got our trees and they knew my parents and I went to school with their son! How fun is that? We have snow and dry roads so traveling to our daughter & son in laws house in NH will be no problem. We will celebrate with our son-in laws family tonight and our daughter & son in law in the xmas am. Then it's on to our son's and daughter in laws and all her family and our new grandson along with our daughter & son in law. So I'm wrapped, I've shopped, decorated the tree, put lights outside (which will probably stop traffic because we're at mom's
and she was too ill
to put any decorations or tree up for a long time. We did what we could but living so far away (only because of job reasons not because we wanted to) it was tough. I missed the last two christmas's here. One because we had made a zillion trips that year for my daughters wedding and last year due to complications with a surgery I had. It was my mom's last christmas and I missed it. So this year I decided to honor her by using only
her decorations at her house. And to use all that carefully saved paper over the years that
she so painsakinly saved each and every year along with the bows. It felt like she was here with me. So it's christmas eve and I am not sad and she would have wanted it that
way. I truly wondered how would I ever get through this without her but I prayed and I talked to her and look what I got? Magic! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!