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How I Spent My Christmas Holiday

Happy New Year Y’all!!


I thought I start my first piece of the New Year with something from the past.


Remember when you were a kid and for the Christmas holiday your teacher told you to write a essay about how you spent your Christmas with your family?  Do you remember what you wrote in that essay? Can you remember what grades you were in when you had to write that essay?


I thought for fun that I write one this time because I can not tell how excited I was to be going to spend Christmas with Harry, Michelle and the girls. We had orginially discussed it back during Labor Day weekend, so right before Thanksgiving we had the made the plan for me to go there for Christmas official.  So the whole trip ticket for me to stay a whole week was purchased before November could even finish with itself.


By the first week for December we were discussing was to go.  I know that I want to visit the San Antonio Riverwalk. I have been to San Antonio at least 4 times and not one time did we go to the Riverwalk as we always talked about. Since I will be there for a much longer time it is on list, along with going to Texas do Brasil for dinner, going threw some well known neighborhood to see the Christmas lights and somewhere during the week we are going ice skating. (So can not wait to bust my ass with this event!)
I will be there to celebrate my birthday and so I thinking a cake, dinner and girls’ silliness.  Nope!!! Harry and Michelle calls during week 2 in December to let me know that they got something big planned and that I need to have evening wear for a night on the town. As much as my ass shop, I did not think about purchasing evening wear or anything to wear for New Year’s, which Harry and Michelle insist that I stay longer to attend a New Year’s Eve party with them. And I just couldn’t say “No!”  (Feeling guilty before it all starts)
So the ride to San Antonio went smooth and late as usually, but that is okay.  Upon arrival at the house, the outside was bright with festival Christmas lights, however when I walked inside it was another thing and I did not have any sunglasses with me.  More festival Christmas stuff than I could even image. I mean the decorations that were in Harry and Michelle’s house was something that I have not seen since my Grandmother when we used to live on Eggleston St in Chicago. (Those were the go days!) I counted four Christmas trees, including a pink Christmas tree, in the house and decorations where ever in almost ever rooms in the house, this is including the bedrooms and two of the three bathrooms.  Christmas stockings over the fireplace and three stockings on the wall, one for each dog in the house: Fifi, Houston, and Bella. Again I have not seen this amount of gifts since Christmas on Eggleston St., with most of the gifts going to the kids as usually. And the scents of Christmas through out the house.


From December 22 - January 2, we went to dinner at other people’s house for dinner. We drove around Windcrest for look at the beautiful decorations, and yes, I too video and pictures.  We had a lot of baking which lead to a lot washing dishes. (Trust me when I say that my hand are beyond the Palmolive Hands for dish wash.) Again it reminded me of days of living in my grandparents' house on Eggleston St. in Chicago. And finish the time there with New Year’s Eve at Harry and Michelle’s friends’s house with some amazing people, and we realizes just how old we are to try stay up. It was cute and hilarious in enjoy that evening. Now somewhere during these days, Bella decided to redecorate the house with things that she thought were appropriate. (That is truly a story for another time.)

Also during that time, I have managed to eat more tamales than I have ever eaten in my life time. With each tamale, I eat a different kind with amazing favor. And come to find out that tamales is a regular dish in the San Antonio area.  So WOW to that factor and to eat some of the other amazing food that I got to eat.

Spending Christmas with Harry, Michelle and the girls made me realizes what I missed most about spending Christmas with my family and what I do not miss about spending Christmas with my family. And there were a lot of don'ts!

Until next time. . . .

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