"CHRISTMAS TIME"

Christmas Time is my favorite holiday...However over the past few years it has changed a lot.

Over the years family members have grown up, had children, moved away, gotten married ect...

It happens, the other day I was looking at one Vivien's scrapbooks that I have made for her and saw a picture of my 2 sisters & I laughing. It was the year that my mom on Christmas eve made us open the gift that she picked out. It was a pair of P.J.'s. (we get P.J.'s just about every year), but this year all 3 of us opened our present at the same time to reveal the same pair of P.J.'s. It was so funny. So all 3 of us went into the room and changed into the matching sleepwear we had just opened. The picture is of all 3 of us laying down on the floor hugging each other. It is a great picture since we do not have very many like that. We are all very different, but in the same since we are all very much alike. Just in different ways. It's funny how you can share the same DNA, but look at things so differently. And yet, understand why they may look at it differently. I don't think we are suppose to understand that one!!!

Anyway...This year for Christmas will be the one that is going to not be as great. Let's see, my sister Jennifer & my 2 nephews will not be spending the night on Christmas Eve (like we usually do), my little sis Kimberly & her hubby Alan will not be here (it's along turn), & most of all my brother Aaron will not be here at all (he moved to Cali last summer). So my dad & mom will be very sad since his whole family will not be together this year. It will only be Vivien, Mom, Dad & myself on Christmas Morning. A part of me is very sad, but the other part knows it is just a part of life.

I just thank the Lord everyday that I have a family to be with!!! But most of all I thank him for my little girl Vivien because my life would not be the same without her. She is my whole world!!!