Christmas has always been one of my favorite holidays. As a kid, it was the presents. As I grow older, it becomes more about family and the memories I make. I love giving gifts and I won’t lie, I do like getting them too. I love the holiday parties, the food, the drinks, and most of all the memories. I have a close knit family and they are everything to me. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without them.
Every year, my family all gets together sometime around Christmas. We go all out and have a huge feast. We play white elephant and just have a blast. Drinks are passed back and forth and by the end we’re stuffed. We visit and we laugh just like every Christmas.
Christmas as a kid was always a huge event. We’d go to both sets of my grandparent’s house and exchange gift as well as eat too much. I loved seeing what people got me. Most of the time, it would be before Christmas day so the countdown would begin until I would get to open more gifts. Plus the excitement of Santa coming was overwhelming. I loved it.
Now that I’m older, the memories are different. I love convincing my parents to drive around and look at lights while listening to Christmas music and drinking hot chocolate. I love all the Christmas movies on TV that we watch together. I just like getting to spend time with them.
I’ve always been single around Christmastime. I wish I could say it didn’t bother me, but that would be a lie. I wish I had someone in my life but its not my biggest priority. Christmas is the time for magic and hope and I still believe in that. I don’t want to settle for someone completely wrong for me and I won’t. This time of year is the greatest, even for us single folk.
Be grateful for your family this year. Make lots of memories. Appreciate everything around you. It’s the only thing that lasts. Thank you all for reading. I’ll see you Thursday with a new post.