My Happy Moments

Luis

You have all heard the expression that Christmas is about giving; not receiving, and Christmas isn’t about the presents, but about being with your family.  Well, in my family when I was little, we didn’t really celebrate the traditional Christmas.  We couldn’t afford buying gifts; we didn’t have big Christmas dinner, and we certainly didn’t open any presents on Christmas Eve.

It was not that we didn’t like Christmas, but our family had to make the best of our situation to celebrate it in our own way.  For years my brothers and I didn’t really receive any Christmas presents we would wait for from Santa.  We were disappointed to see no presents on Christmas morning.  My dad had accident on the job, and that stopped him from working, and my mom at that time was unemployed.  Even though they didn’t have enough money to buy us presents, they would take us out to eat, and afterwards go downtown and look at all the Christmas lights. Thanks to the generosity of some of my father’s good friends, we had some gifts at Christmas.  I never forget the happy moments that they gave us.

As I grew up, I watched those Christmas television shows and that make me think Christmas wasn’t all about presents, but about spending quality time with my family.  Nowadays my mom and I started working, and so together we buy presents for the whole family. I love to see the looks on their faces when they were opening them.  They couldn’t be happier than me when I unwrapped my presents from my father’s friends years ago, and I truly understand the meaning of giving and happiness.