Merry Christmas mates,
It’s that time a year again where we’re hustling and bustling to find the perfect gifts for him and her. Mum, dad, and the little ones and let’s not forget our mate who has everything. Every year I find that the holiday season comes a lot faster than it did the year before. My years are starting to fly by. I’d like to share with you a very special Christmas I had a few years back.
I remember this Christmas vividly and after I share my story with you I’m sure you’ll remember it just as vividly. Growing up with my aunt who isn’t Christian meant that we didn’t celebrate Christmas time.
When I was starting to get to know my mum who is Christian when December rolled around. It was a very different experience for me to tell her and other relatives what I wanted for the holiday.
I was afraid that I wouldn’t get a CD player, at the time they were as expensive as iPods are now. My goal was to get that CD player, every single person who asked me what I wanted for Christmas got the same reply “I would like a Sony portable CD and a three disc home CD player” I had my line rehearsed it got to a point where people almost didn’t even have to open their mouths before I told them exactly what I wanted.
Come Christmas morning, the house smelled like blueberries, cinnamon, and coffee. I raced down to look under the Christmas tree and there were several gifts with my name on it some of them big and a few of them smaller.
After breakfast and a little game of scrabble we opened the gifts and I had gotten 10 portable CD players and 5 three disc changing CD players.
It was the best Christmas I’d ever had it made me happy to know that a family I hadn’t really known at the time where really listening to me and took their hard earned cash and spent it on a kid that they didn’t really know. They wanted to see my face light up, even though I got the same gift each time my face did light up.