It's almost Christmas. Exciting!!! It will be a very different Christmas this year without my cousin, May, to play Mum over all of us...and then Christmas without Bubba...gee I write that and i have to hold back the tears. How sad am I?!
For me Christmas is all about the kids in 'our extended family' which is May and her tribe, my brother and his tribe, and our household (myles, my other bro - rob, and myself). So the kids are Bubba, Tylah, Taneisha and CJ (they are all crazy and very hypo). Except without Bubba it will be very boring for the other 3. She's the eldest, the ring leader, the others are siblings who get up each other's noses every minute of the day! I'm going to seriously miss her.
But then Len, my other cousin, and his family are joining us, plus his bro, Eddie and his girlfriend. We all get along well so it should be heaps of fun but different.
I was telling the rest of our group that this will be the first christmas I am looking forward to since my Dad died (Mar 2003). Ok, tears again, sad sad sad....it use to feel like it was only yesterday I saw him, but now it feels like a long time ago...and yes I miss him desperately.
bittersweet my life will always be
without you next to me.
yes, I will miss my Dad always.
2 comments:
Christmas has not meant much to me. Sure as a kid I enjoyed it for presents etc...and the time off school...but I reckon that was it. And now I am a Christian - I must admit it aint changed much. I hope one day to find some real Christmas spirit. May need some help one this one!
Maybe one christmas you need to not give any presents or receive any presents than you will know what Christmas is all about.
This means your own birthday must not mean much to you because that's what Christmas is - the day we celebrate the LORD's birthday and a life lived AWESOMELY!!
And it reminds us that it's not over yet - we will see him again.
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