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do you ever not celebrate the holliday

missy12358104
missy12358104
This christmas I was considering not decorating at all and just treating it as if it were a regular day. I lost both of my grandparents this year. My grandparents helped to raise me. The pain has been so hard as this is my first holidays without them. I did finally decide to treat christmas as i always have in the past and use it to remember all of the good things about them.
AFWC
AFWC
And perhaps it was your Grandparents nudging you from the other side insisting that you "treat Christmas as you always had to use it as a reminder of all the good about them : ) Certainly they are watching over and protecting you!
Merry Christmas Missy ~ wishing you many little miracles of Christmas' past to fill your heart today! God bless ~
deleted_user
deleted_user
So glad you went ahead and done Christmas.. last year was our first year without my Daddy and my momma had already started talking about not having Christmas... That liked to have killed me.. yes, I dreaded it really bad.. but Christmas was my Daddy's favorite time of the year.. he loved it.. WE DID have Christmas.. we cried, it was different , but we felt very blessed to still have each other. God Bless You! Lori
deleted_user
deleted_user
I lost my daughter this year and although my parents and everyone else is celebrating, my boyfriend and I didn't get a tree or even say Merry Christmas to eachother. I treated it like any other day until I got on the computer and one of my friends sent me a video of my daughter for last year this time. And it sucks. And it makes me want to die. It's not fair that I couldn't be Santa this year like I was the last... It just isn't fair