marie myers

Most everyone wonders how others choose to spend or celebrate their holidays. So here is how I spent mine this year.

It started when I purchased a round trip bus ticket for my 15 year old son on Monday December 8th at about 3 in the afternoon. I sent it through regular via mail in plenty of time for it to be received in order for my son to come up on the 23rd.

I have never lost anything in the mail until now. This is just one of those events in my life that proved to me “everything happens at least once”. So, I threw $$$in the trash (or should I say, in the air).

Our house was not decorated until pretty mush the last minute. Two weeks before Christmas. We usually decorate right after Thanks Giving Day.We did not put up the tree because of having a toddler who is rapidly approaching the terrible twos.

I decided to do a same day round trip by driving to southern New Jersey and back to northeastern Pennsylvania and my 19 year old daughter and her 18 month old son accompanied me. It took me an extra hour to drive down because of the heavy winds so it was 7 hours of highway driving. Some good came out of our trip though. We got to see my son wrestle for the first time and we also was able to spend some time with my sister in her Camden, NJ home.

Finally, I was able to begin the drive back home at 10:30 pm. I had to get home before my husband had to go to work at 7 in the next morning. We arrived home around 2 in the morning after having to make 2 extra stops in order to wake myself up. I am a very dependable and reliable person  but even I was falling a sleep while driving which scared me. Driving on a Turnpike after dark more than an hour is a mistake waiting to happen. All I seen was the guard rail along the left side of the road with mini reflectors which made me feel as if someone was trying to hypnotize me.

Of course we spent the next day doing nothing but lay around after sleeping late. The baby’s sleeping and eating schedule was completely mixed up for the day.

Most of our days have been filled with doing anything to pass the day in the house because of it being so cold outside. Neither of us are fans of cold weather. My son and I are anything but normal together because of how we wind up amusing each other. He is 6′1″ 205 pound black male. I am 5′7″ 170 pound 45 year old white female. He is my youngest of 5 grown children. We wrestle, joke on each other and others, write on each other, pick on each other, and talk about anything that may come to mind. We are a lot like siblings. I let him rest his head on my shoulder as I rub his head when watching television.

My daughter who is 19 and my son who is 15 are the two yougest one’s of my children. When we weren’t watching movies or picking on each other, they would be playing video games as they are right now as I am typing this.

This Christmas was really low on gifts because of many things but managed to get a few things by ordering from FingerHut and the help of church members. My son really broke his healthy eating rules when my daughter decided to bake cookies.

So, I guess you could say that we spent our Christmas enjoying each other and using a lot of electricity for entertainment as well.