What Do I Want For Christmas?

What Do I Want For Christmas?

by

B.D. Adams

©2013

            As I have gotten older, I really do not think about what I want for Christmas. After all, this is a season more for children. What use do I have for a Furby doll?!

            When I was very young, my parents and Santa gave me dolls (got a Chatty Cathy once), dress-up costumes, coloring books with new boxes of crayons and various other toys. The older I got the gifts were oil paints (to expand my artistic ability), nice clothes for school and books of all sorts of subjects. I loved the Curious George and Babar books as a child. However, my main interests, at the pre-teen level, were fishing with my dad and going to zoos. Learning about animals, birds included, was my thrill! I was so happy when I received my first dog to love!

            I really hope my son will take my Grandson to the zoo in Los Angeles to see the animals of the earth! I believe my paternal, British grandmother was the instigator for my love for animals. A great teacher, she was.

            Every Christmas season conjures up many memories for most Americans. For most of us, it is family and the passels of friends you cannot bear to ignore! For others, it is a quiet time more for reminiscing about a lost loved one and what can be hoped for the coming future.

            Daniel and I are transplants to New Hampshire and we have lost friend and family while here, but we love the Christmas time. We decorate the inside of our home, as well as the outside, to make tribute to memories and remain positive! The thoughts of what we learned from those who have passed are more important than the actual lost!

Soon, many families will make contact with their family members that live away, as we will. We will spend phone visits with Daniel’s son and family in northern California, and we’ll spend video visits with my son and his family in southern California. It is good to encourage even the high-tech methods to stay in touch!

            Of course, we would prefer to have everyone here in New Hampshire, but this is the reality of our times. If I could hope for one present, it would be to have both our families in New Hampshire for Christmas!! That would be so nice!

In any event, I do recall, from a long time ago, that one cousin said he planned to open a bar in the Florida Keys or in the Virgin Islands. Hmmmm ... maybe I should look him up. I’ve always wanted to visit those places. 

All I want for Christmas is to wish everyone a

Merry Christmas and a bodacious New Year for 2014!!!