This year my parents came all the way from the east coast to visit us for the kids' holiday break. We had a great time. It was very special having them with us as it had been some years since they had visited us in our home, and we got to spend Christmas and New Years together. They flew to California and saw Sky and then a couple days later the three of them all flew in to stay with us. We enjoyed decorating our tree, shopping for gifts, cooking lots of meals, seeing Shawn's school exhibition night, Christmas eve mass at St. Theresa's Church (yes I am a saint hahaha), going out to dinner and brunch, playing board games, watching movies, walks on the beach, having them meet lots of our friends, seeing all of the tropical flowers in bloom, our New Years Eve neighborhood party, and of course, lots of laughs.
Our family has a tradition of writing letters to one another every Christmas. It started when the kids asked me what I wanted one year and I asked them to write me a letter. It has evolved over the years and now Gary writes letters too. My parents enjoyed getting letters from the kids this year.
What a blessing family is. How lucky am I to have the love of so many people in my life. Sometimes I am astounded at how I ended up with the richness I have. The deepest richness, I have come to see, is in the people.
