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Chistmas has come and gone again this year. I love Christmas for so many reasons. The best reason of all is that we are saved because a baby boy was born on this day so many years ago. Do you know I am so excited to be a Christian? I don't do as I should and proclaim that enough, but WOW I am doing it now! I love the Lord and I am happy to eat cake and ham and potatoes and butter beans on Jesus's birthday.
Christmas was always so much fun with Daddy! He always made us listen to the Elvis Christmas album while decorating the tree. I still love that music. He wanted his tree to have colored lights. The more lights, the more better... One year he bought lights that had different settings. He curled one set around the tree and set them to "CHASE". The plastic green tree looked like a race track for colored lights. Adding to that chaos he had another strand set to "CAROL". This made the lights blink to different Christmas carols. The funny part was that it didn't play music, but you knew the song b/c the tree would blink in time to some familiar song...JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS... I can still picture that tree with lights going crazy and Daddy loving every minute.
My last Christmas with Daddy was no different. He was so excited. He went to K-Mart and bought a tree while I was at the office. He was almost giddy when I got home from work! When I came in that December afternoon, he had it! It was a pre-lit tree- THAT ROTATED. I thought it was silly, but he loved that thing. 6 Christmas seasons have passed since he brought that huge box home, and I still have the rotating tree.
It is so difficult to decorate and be merry without him here. If it weren't for my babies, I wouldn't do it at all. It physically hurts to look at a Christmas tree. Will this ever change?
My last Christmas with Daddy was no different. He was so excited. He went to K-Mart and bought a tree while I was at the office. He was almost giddy when I got home from work! When I came in that December afternoon, he had it! It was a pre-lit tree- THAT ROTATED. I thought it was silly, but he loved that thing. 6 Christmas seasons have passed since he brought that huge box home, and I still have the rotating tree.
It is so difficult to decorate and be merry without him here. If it weren't for my babies, I wouldn't do it at all. It physically hurts to look at a Christmas tree. Will this ever change?
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