When you hear the phrase, “my favorite holidays are the ones you gave your parents/sister/grandmother/whatever,” you have probably just spent time with a woman over the age of 60 who is dying to tell you that she had the best time growing up, spending time with family, and now that they’re in their seventies they don’t want to live anymore. And to this woman all the holidays don’t exist.
Are holidays truly the best time for a woman who loves her family? It depends on what youre looking for. If you want to keep them engaged and alive, you might want to spend your summers with them during the summer.
Some of my own favorite holidays are birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, Halloween, and Halloween candy. So you can have a lot of fun with your holiday traditions, itll just be too depressing to see all of it.
Many, many years ago, I remember spending holiday after Christmas with my boyfriend, we decided to do something different. Since my Mom was the hostess at Christmas, we invited all of the women my boyfriend was dating to come with us to a birthday dinner. I was going to get married, but he insisted on going to the dinner with his girlfriends and me. We went to our restaurant and got a fancy menu (the only thing I ever had ever ordered).
On the whole I’m still of the mind, as so many folks have said to me in casual conversation, that the holidays are about love and respect. And those are the ones that really make me smile, the ones that seem to go together so well. What a lovely holiday season. New blog: These simple words are the foundation for all the better things we can do as a marriage and family.
