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Christmas Memories 2008
Merry Christmas!!!! This will be the last column until next year, so I wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year as well. It’s been an awesome year and I want to thank all of you who continue to read the column and support the PHF family. I didn’t get a lot of Christmas memories in this year, but the few I got brought a smile to my face. Everyone used their’s up last year I guess, ha.
My memory this year was from a couple of years ago. My brother Dre was in Kentucky playing baseball and going to school out there. Dre and his wife, Siobhan, weren’t able to leave that year. The rest of my family came to Houston and my brother Josh and I made a song called “The Duran Family Christmas” and it was the greatest song ever made. So if you ever decide to visit me here in Houston, I’ll let you hear it.
And now to the rest of the memories…
I was thinking about what I could share this year for Christmas with everyone. I have so many great family memories to be grateful for. And in my recent memories, I have a wonderful husband to share these memories with. Last year my husband and I spent Christmas with my family in New Mexico. Chris (my husband) was able to have one of his few “White Christmases”, (Houston isn’t known for snowing often), build a snowman, and plow up snow-filled mountains with my little brother. It is funny how we all take certain things for granted. I have always disliked the snow because it is cold and messy and muddy after the first day but I realize it’s all in perspective. My husband was in heaven outside in the cold building a snowman from scratch by himself because no one wanted to help him. It was too cold and too wet!!! He finally recruited my dad to go out and help him and it was such a funny sight to see them both struggling to make this pile of snow look like a snowman. In the end, after several days of work, they made something that resembled a snowman only finishing minutes before we were about to leave back to Houston. Pictures of that trip remind me that we can find joy in the small things and what is cold, wet and muddy to me, can bring lots of joy and happiness to others!!! Merry Christmas!!
- Celina, Houston, TX
My favorite Christmas memory was when I was about 15. It was a Wednesday and we were eating supper before going to church. But that night my dad was acting kind of funny. We were eating meat loaf, which was his favorite, and he wasn’t eating any of it. Well come to find out it was because he was having a heart attack. We called 911 and not even 15 minutes later we had 10 paramedics we rushing into our living room. And my dad was just laying there all pale and looking very scared. All i could do was cry and pray. Pray that my daddy would be ok. As he was being wheeled away we all gave him a kiss and watched as they drove to the football field to get him in the helicopter. But when they got to the field they didn’t go anywhere, they just sat there. I was so scared. I really didn’t want my dad to die. Not now he was only 38. But lucky for him, the reason why they didn’t leave was because the baby aspirin that they gave him saved his life and he would be ok. So on Christmas day I got to spend time with my dad. And from now on I hope that every Christmas is the same and he will be here with me forever!
- Bailey, Wayne, NE
One Christmas I dressed up as Santa. It was fun. I gave out toys. I like toys. They are fun.
- Josh, Raton, NM
Another Christmas memory I have is when I was little and we played Pictionary, I had to do the word diaper, well I had such a hard time that everyone kept guessing bottle, baby, poop, undies, pants, but nobody could ever guess diaper. We did my word for so long that they forgot about the timer and wanted to make sure they knew what it was, but still nobody guessed it right! So, I gave up and by that time it was midnight and we opened gifts. So, from that day forward, I do not like games like that because everyone kept guessing everything else besides a diaper! But I got some cool gifts that year so it made everything else ok, lol. JK, but really that year I had fun because I was with my family and we all actually stayed up that night.
- Jessica, Houston, TX
That’s all the memories I received this year, we’ll try again next year. God Bless. Have a safe and wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
w/muchluv,
geno
PS…IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO SEND ME PRESENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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