Christmas is coming up. It's coming up fast.
This year will be different. I don't know yet if it will be good, bad, or just all right. I'm hoping for great honestly.
My family will be missing one person this holiday season. He would be the one to call our names out and hand the gifts to us. He would sit in the middle of the pile and take charge. Making sure each person opened a gift in turn. He would then go on a rant about never having enough batteries to try out a new toy :P. Then we would all gather in the kitchen and eat leftovers from the party the night before and muffins my mom would make. He'd make sure there was enough coffee for a couple dozen people.
I'm not sure what the mood is going to be like with my dad gone now. I have no clue what to expect. I'm used to expecting a certain mood for the holidays, a certain way the day goes. This year I'm groping in the dark.
I do have to remember though, that there are people I love and cherish who are still here. That family will still be getting together and it's up to us, as a group, to make the mood cheerful and hopeful. It's up to us to keep his memory alive and well but we need to do that trough the laughter. He wouldn't accept moping on Christmas.
So what will this Christmas bring? Family. It will bring us together, even the ones who have moved on.
I know it's still early but:
Merry Christmas!
Smile. Laugh. Drink. Eat. Be together. At Christmas the food is always better, the drinks tastier, the laughs louder. At Christmas the things family do to drive you up the wall no longer matter. Go hug the one you love. Call someone you haven't talked to in a long time. And remember the ones who have passed on.
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