This Christmas

This Christmas will not be the same like no other Christmas ever before. Every parent tries for that ever year. Every year we try to make it a year to remember. This year I don't want to remember nothing at all. This is not a Christmas that I want to look back at in several years and say do you remember the Christmas of 2014. We always make chocolates the night of the 23rd. Well we did the same this year. My youngest daughter and I struggled through hours of melting, dipping, and pouring trying not to get our tears in the sweets for our family. After we struggled through it we decided that this Christmas we did not have to try to carry on as if everything is ok. That our extended family and friends will just have to go through one year of no treats basket from us. This morning we are normally up early making hard candies for everyone. This Christmas we have now decided to sleep in, though my daughter is the only one to have seceded in this. We have decided that no we can't stop Christmas from coming and don't want to because that means it is one day closer to Johnathan coming home but we don't have to do all our normal things that everyone in the family tells us to. This Christmas we are going to keep it low key, we are going to lean on each other and cry if we have to. This Christmas will be like no other a year without possibly the best son in the world home and  the big brother that my daughter thinks hung the moon and stars.

 We know we are lucky in a way we only have to have one of These Christmases. It doesn't mean my baby girl or I am hurting any less it just means we only have to have one of These Christmases.

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  • Yes..we all have to do or not do what works for us. Hugs to you and yours
  • I was just sitting here thinking kind of like that..it sure is hard and so sad...

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