Well, here we are, nearly at the end of 2013, and I am just now updating my blog in regard to the holidays. It has been a rough year due to unemployment and financial stresses encountered by myself and within the family unit. Fortunately, as I hope this blog will show, I tried to raise my sons to realize the importance of sticking together as a family and supporting each other. I am so proud of them, as I have seen more of the love they have for each other this past year then I have ever seen. For instance, my oldest son has a very small house in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. In the past few years (due to a couple of his brothers moving from one state to another or loss of employment), he has taken in three of his brothers, as well as a niece (my granddaughter), her three little ones (my great grand children), and her fiance'.
Another son and daughter-in-law moved in with me two years ago. All this to say, that as a family, we stick together through thick or thin. This year found me being dismissed from a position I loved; a position I held at my church for six years. As a result, there was no money to buy Christmas gifts for anyone, let alone any money for baking supplies. As for food, guess what? You really can live on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for days at a time. :)
Knowing how much I love holiday baking, and not having the money to buy any baking supplies, the boys bought and dropped off what I needed to bake their favorite cookies and candies. Guess they were not going to let Mom get off that easy :). On Christmas Day, we all gathered in that small house in Columbia Heights for a Christmas dinner that the boys pitched in and worked together to make. Working and playing together as a family......how blessed is that! Your ancestors would be proud of you boys! Boys? That's pretty much of an understatement, since all my "boys" are between 42 and 53......hardly boys anymore.
This was not the joyous Christmas that I had looked forward to earlier in the year. However, with the economy being in such bad shape and so many out of work and becoming homeless, we are blessed to have each other, a roof over our head, and the greatest gift this season could bring..........the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Wishing you and yours a most blessed Christmas
and a healthy and prosperous New Year!
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