Well the holiday season is upon us once again. This is the ninth year my son has been incarcerated and it does not get any easier. He is sentenced to Life without Parole so I have had to learn to try to make our Christmas special differently than I ever did before. Most of you have a date of release you can look forward to and most of you have families to help you through it but I have none of that. My parents have passed on and since my son's crime involved a family member (my cousin) I have no family to fall back on. I am the only one he gets cards, letters and visits from which is really hard on him. I still decorate for Christmas every year and remember the good times with each ornament I hang on the tree. This is difficult for me but I just have to do it because not decorating would feel so much worse. So with that I am off to decorate and cry....
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Thank You all so much for your kind responses, They truly made me feel so not all alone. I feel blessed to have found you all here this year. I know it is going to help my son and I both. I received a letter from him yesterday and he said he got some really nice cards for Thanksgiving. He asked me to thank Barbara, Connie, Sue and Grandma Betty. I thank you ladies SO much for sending him those cards.