holiday memory #2

I have run the gammit of holidays, so to speak-I have been dirt poor & I have had the best of the best...but, it has been a life lesson for me showing me & my kids that the holidays are all NOT about money...growing up, one of 12 kids, extremely poor, most nights going to bed without dinner (why would the holidays be any different?), then we did OK being newly married with babies, but when I went ...back to nursing and Ross had his aerospace well paid position we had the creme de la creme, that was the good life. who knew he would lose his job, never to work (good) again. once again I got plunged into darkness of having nothing. but surprisingly, the last one was the most memorable to us as a family...we could not even afford a tree, less alone presents, food etc. but we made due with what we had and we stuck together as a family and that is what my family still talks about. one year when we were really down and out, 2 other families stepped in and gave my kids a wonderful holiday...you see it is not about money or having or not having, it is about being together...I will not speak of what this year is going to be like, we will make a new memory not with the same traditions we are used to but we are together for another year with healthy grandkids...