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Christmas blues New Year smiles


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Christmas use to be my favorite holiday, over the years I have lost that feeling. I think it comes from all the expectations I have of what it should have been. I am trying so hard to stay upbeat this year but, it is not easy. I fell down a few weeks ago and hurt my back. Now they say I have degenerative joint diease. Next Friday Rod goes in for surgery on his kidney stones. We both have had colds so we decided not to go to Massachusetts for Christmas. I had Rod call his family to tell them we would not becoming and they bearly talked to him, they are so busy. I am grateful it doesn't bother him as much as it bothers me. I hear from my family every day. His family, unless we call their is no communication that includes his mother. I would have hoped that because it is Christmas they would make more of an effort. I read the posting on emotions and it is a good one. We have been through all of them, and somedays we still go through them. What I would like for next year would be happiness, just be a little happier, and smile a little more.I just don't want to feel sadness anymore.

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I think Chritsmas is hard for a lot of us because we have a "Brady Bunch" outlook on it. Our first Christmas after Ray's strokes in 1999 was a difficult one Dad had cancer, Mum had dementia, Ray was only just starting to be mobile. But it turned out to be the last one for my Dad so I was glad I made the effort.

 

Just enjoy the day for what it is. It can be a time when we give way to the memories of the past, but we need to enjoy the present too. None of us know just what is around the corner, good or bad so I try to do my best with each new day.

 

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