Christmas Reminiscing

This is Derrick and I's first Christmas together. Even though we were dating last Christmas, I spent the holidays in Hawaii with family living there. Anyways, he mailed me letters that he wrote counting down the days until I would see him. It was really fun to read one everyday! I remember flying home two days before New Year's Eve in time to wash my clothes, pack my bags again and fly to see him in Jackson Hole Wy. It was there that I helped him pack up his apartment  and move to Utah! Now that was one of the best days of my life! It was finally nice to see him everyday again! I never take for granted the time we have together; tomorrow is not promised to anyone!

I had the perfect idea of how I wanted the Christmas tree this year, and so did Derrick. I ended up decorating how I wanted to because Derrick wanted to put home made ornaments on it. Well my dear, we have only been married 6 months and no children to make decorations for the tree yet. Maybe one day! For now it is not kid friendly but beautiful! It also may look like a lot of presents but most of them are presents for other people. I just kept them under the tree until Christmas so it looks like a lot! LOL We will take them around tomorrow!

Derrick is on call this year and so we get to spend Christmas all by ourselves! We can try to go to either family for parties but there is no guarantee if we will be able to make it there and if we do how long we will be able to stay. Derrick has all the food purchased for a yummy Christmas breakfast! I can't wait. I love Christmas!

One story for old time sakes: I remember as a teenager when our family was struggling finically. We lived with our grandparents, my brother was on a mission, my dad was trying to finish up his degree but did not have a job. When Christmas Eve rolled around, my family was happily content because we had everything we needed. With music in the background, games being played, the door bell rang. We all looked around a little shocked; it is late on Christmas eve and no one normally would stop buy. I quickly got up and answered the door; to my surprises there was the biggest basket of Christmas goodies. No car in site to give away who could have brought it. Everything was in the basket to have a wonderful Christmas dinner, along with all kinds of food. I now can't remember the specifics but I still remember the feeling. The feeling of complete selflessness! That basket was for our family, someone out there knew more about us then we let anyone else know. I honestly don't even know who would have known we were struggling financially. Many tears ran down my cheeks that night, somebody loved our family! To this day I have no idea who did that but I still want to say, thank you, Thank You for bringing our family the Spirit of Christmas that year!