If there is one thing you can always count on it's change....
Christmas Eve has always been "my" holiday. It has always been a bigger deal to me then Christmas. Well surprise, surprise...daddy had to work. It really put me in a bah humbug sort of mood. I didn't plan a big feast like usual, and I did have friends or family around. It was depressing....
I was sitting on the sofa with my daughter reading her a Christmas Carol (my favorite holiday book) and felt like someone smacked me in the head. Why should I stop a tradition that I am used to just because their is only 2 of us and not 20. What if this was all I had? Some people only have 2 people in their family...is Christmas any less special for them? I'm grateful that my husband has a job that allows me to stay home and raise my daughter. I'm grateful that he's working on Christmas Eve to support us and give us a home, food, and presents under the tree. Some people are not as fortunate. Needless to say, this revelation snapped me out of my misery.
We hopped in the car an hour before stores closed for the holidays, and bought (special) Christmas-time food.
My kid LOVES shrimp cocktail, so she was very happy eating it all to herself!
Afterwards we baked more cookies, drank hot coa coa, watched some Christmas movies, and put out food for Santa and his reindeer.
It was a lovely night, and even though it was sad to not be surrounded by friends and family, it's choices that you make that change the outcome of your life. I could have treated this like a normal night and not made it special, but that wasn't fair to my daughter or me. I chose to make the best of what we had, with each other and it was as wonderful a night as any other Christmas Eve, just different. That's the thing about life, you can always count on change.
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