In an effort to blog more and give shout-outs to the blogs I enjoy, I am participating in The Seattle Smiths’s Wishful Wednesday. Every Wednesday, Kelsey poses a question on what everyone is wishful for, and the answers roll in. This week’s question:
‘I wish’ …. I could relive one particular holiday experience over and over again, and it would be _____!
Taking advantage of the warm weather, my family has escaped to India for most Christmases in the past 10 years. Once I became a teenager, my parents figured the whole Santa jig was up and we didn’t need to celebrate the holidays.
I understand their logic: escaping the cold weather for warm, reuniting with their many brothers and sisters still in India, eating heaps of delicious Indian food…it definitely was a nice way to spend the holidays. Presents weren’t an issue (I was happy enough to receive the flight ticket and some small trinkets), and I got to spend a lot of time with my family, which is perhaps the most important part of the holidays.
But I still missed decorating trees, sipping hot chocolate next to a fireplace, detangling lights and hanging them on the house with my dad, baking cookies and stringing popcorn into garlands with my nephews, battling the crowds to find my family perfect gifts, going to see The Nutcracker, playing Christmas music nonstop, searching for funny (and appropriate) holiday cards, walking through Rittenhouse Square with the light balls suspended in the trees, marveling at the decorations of King of Prussia mall as I battle my way from store to store, admiring the festive lights adorned on Boathouse Row as I drive along I-76. I miss it all.
If I could go back and relive one holiday experience, it would be the Christmas of 1999, where my entire family congregated to our house in Colorado for one of my favorite holiday moments.
Head over to The Seattle Smith’s to add your holiday moment you could relive!
