One Christmas
I was reading a few Facebook posts from my friends about what they wanted for Christmas or didn't want and one of my friends said that what she wants can't be put under the Christmas tree and wrapped up in shinny paper. She never said what she wanted exactly but I have a small idea.
So, even though nobody really asked me what I wanted for Christmas, which is no big deal because I haven't been asked that question since I was around 12 years old, it got me to thinking about what I would say if someone actually asked me. I really didn't have an answer except for some beach front real estate and a winning a new car on the Price is Right or something. I know. I know just off the top of my head and it is funny. I have what I need the basics food, clothes, etc..could use more money but who can't huh? I would like to have my grandmother back from heaven for Christmas but once you are in heaven you aren't coming back so I can't have that. Then I was thinking that I would like to know my cousins and their kids and grand kids from my father's side of the family. When he died they sort of disappeared too. If I saw one of them right now I wouldn't know them. It is sad. So, that would be a good thing on Christmas seeing and meeting all of them again.
Then I started thinking of when my son was born, the year he was born, and he was born about two weeks before Christmas and on Christmas day he was around 16 days old and I put him in his car seat and took a picture with him near the Christmas tree. Also, that day my son's dad brought me a gift from his mom. When I think about that gift it makes me laugh. He pulls up in his mom's van and she is driving as usual and so he hands me two boxes. The boxes I am sure were in her house for a long time and she just used them to put the stuff in them. Which was fine. I do that too sometimes. So, in one box was a fabric covered musical toy sort of like a keyboard. I guess that is what it was suppose to be for my son. Mind you he couldn't even sit up yet. But, I was like OK when he is around a year old he can play with it. Then I opened the other box and inside there was a "C" shaped fabric thing that if it hadn't said on the label, "neck cozy" I would have had any idea of what it was. Under the neck cozy was a pair of panties, the kind that hold in your stomach. I couldn't help but chuckle and then the chuckle turned into to a belly laugh. Thank goodness I was in the house at the time. So, after I laughed and he laughed and said he didn't know what was inside the boxes I went to the van and thanked his mom for the gifts and wished her a Merry Christmas. I think that as long as I live I will always remember that Christmas and the neck cozy. I did try it out by the way and I am not sure what it was supposed to do but it sure was not built for comfort on my neck that is. I did keep it though and it was the thought that counted although I am still baffled about that thought.
So, even though nobody really asked me what I wanted for Christmas, which is no big deal because I haven't been asked that question since I was around 12 years old, it got me to thinking about what I would say if someone actually asked me. I really didn't have an answer except for some beach front real estate and a winning a new car on the Price is Right or something. I know. I know just off the top of my head and it is funny. I have what I need the basics food, clothes, etc..could use more money but who can't huh? I would like to have my grandmother back from heaven for Christmas but once you are in heaven you aren't coming back so I can't have that. Then I was thinking that I would like to know my cousins and their kids and grand kids from my father's side of the family. When he died they sort of disappeared too. If I saw one of them right now I wouldn't know them. It is sad. So, that would be a good thing on Christmas seeing and meeting all of them again.
Then I started thinking of when my son was born, the year he was born, and he was born about two weeks before Christmas and on Christmas day he was around 16 days old and I put him in his car seat and took a picture with him near the Christmas tree. Also, that day my son's dad brought me a gift from his mom. When I think about that gift it makes me laugh. He pulls up in his mom's van and she is driving as usual and so he hands me two boxes. The boxes I am sure were in her house for a long time and she just used them to put the stuff in them. Which was fine. I do that too sometimes. So, in one box was a fabric covered musical toy sort of like a keyboard. I guess that is what it was suppose to be for my son. Mind you he couldn't even sit up yet. But, I was like OK when he is around a year old he can play with it. Then I opened the other box and inside there was a "C" shaped fabric thing that if it hadn't said on the label, "neck cozy" I would have had any idea of what it was. Under the neck cozy was a pair of panties, the kind that hold in your stomach. I couldn't help but chuckle and then the chuckle turned into to a belly laugh. Thank goodness I was in the house at the time. So, after I laughed and he laughed and said he didn't know what was inside the boxes I went to the van and thanked his mom for the gifts and wished her a Merry Christmas. I think that as long as I live I will always remember that Christmas and the neck cozy. I did try it out by the way and I am not sure what it was supposed to do but it sure was not built for comfort on my neck that is. I did keep it though and it was the thought that counted although I am still baffled about that thought.
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