Having the Best Holidays Ever
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy New 2006! Wouldn’t the holiday season just be weird if it were in the middle of the year? Celebrate the big gift-giving holidays and then, “back to work, you’ve got 6 more months until the New Year’s party – ” Yick! There’s just something about having Christmas, and Hanukkah stacked next to the new year that gives it such an expectation.
I suppose it doesn’t hurt that throughout our childhood lives, the holiday season not only meant gifts, it meant 2 weeks away from school and free time. For me, though, it was the time with my extended family that made all the difference. I could celebrate the holidays with my immediate family of four, but there was just something completely incomplete about not having the grandparents, cousins, arguments, laughing, and food-binge-fests around. And I miss it.
I always wait for the holiday season. But the end of the year is the best time for the season, to sit back and recollect memories.
I miss those times too, when families would gather round the Christmas tree at night picking and fighting over their presents. And the leftover parties!
I hated my school. I used to always look forward to long vacations. I have always been very naughty, active and playful as a child.