As I've gotten older I've taken note about how the things I love about Christmas have changed. As a kid I always loved getting presents - what kid doesn't love getting presents?
I loved the Christmas eve tradition of having dinner at my Grandparents house. After dinner the adults would bundle up the kids and we would pile into my Dad's Buick station wagon and my Dad and Uncle would take us to search for Santa. When we got back we would find that Santa had already brought our presents. I miss those days though they are many years past.
Christmas now is more about the food and company. When it comes to gifts there is nothing that I need so gifts are not the important part. I like getting things for others though. That is what excites me now. It's great to make people smile.
This year was very different from any other Christmas because I didn't get to go home. It was very strange not being there with Mom, Dad, Kathryn and Krysta. Poor Kathryn didn't get to go home either. I was so worried about how difficult it would be without them. My friends however, took good care of me. I need not have worried. They kept me so busy that there wasn't a free moment to contemplate what should have been.
They are the family I chose and they are amazing.
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