It’s Christmas 1991…
We’d been in town…shopping for Christmas all day… gifts, clothes for the kids, tree… It was late when we got home…. The girls were exited and refused to go to bed until we’d got the tree in place… but they wanted to make sure we wouldn’t start decorate it without them…. We made a promise to them that we wouldn’t and as everybody was tired after a long day… everybody fell asleep as soon as the head touched the pillow…
It seemed like every other morning…. I didn’t feel like waking up just yet…
Like usually I could hear that Kim and Meg were already up… I could hear them playing and talking in the living room… A few breaths later one little head peeked in to our bed room….
“They are waking up!” She whispered to her sister…
“Oh no! …we’re not done yet!”
Hmmm?? …. I wondered what they were up to… I knew I could expect anything from those girls… like the time they decided to bring us breakfast in bed just a few weeks before but only to find out that it is difficult to take a full bowl of cereals with milk for a walk without spilling it all over the kitchen floor, the living room floor …and…. and all over mom…
I think I fell asleep again… but not for long as the boys were waking up as well… I heard that Johnny was getting frustrated for not being able to get out of his bed… He’d already thrown his teddy bear on the floor…
“It’s time to get up!” Sunna said… as she stood up from the bed… and I thought I’d better do the same…
The twins came in to our bedroom with a cute suspicious looking smile on their faces….
“Guess what we did?” Meg said… only the get a push from her sister… “Schuss! don’t tell!…. you promised!”
Sunna and I looked at each other…both remembering all the work we (her) had to do after their last little stunt… but Meg wanted to be the first to tell… and she couldn’t wait to tell us…
“We decorated the living room… and the Christmas tree!! …and it’s so pretty… but we couldn’t put the angel on top because it was too height…”
Proudly the girls led us in to the living room…. it was the “cutest” tree I’d ever seen… decorated with our Christmas ornament but also a few well chosen items from the kids toy boxes… Somehow they’d even managed to put the lights on …. but I should tell you that this tree was more than twice their size… and because of that the tree was a bit naked at the top… but that didn’t matter to the girls… Their faces were glowing with pride… and there was no way we were going to say anything to ruin that…
This was the year we had a half naked Christmas tree in our living room….
This was the last Christmas we got to spend with our little girls and their two younger brothers…
as hard as it is to share soem stories thank you for sharing this it is a beautiful emory and a rare gift… i can never find the words to express my sorrow at teh tremendous loss yo u have been thru… know you are never far away in my thoughts… yo and “all” of your family.
peaacful holidays GAbriel
the madpoet of the crew
Beautiful memories of sweet childrens love xxx
Love this memory. ??
I think of you and your beautiful wife often… You two I know have suffered from this loss… I am on the edge of losing my only other child and sometimes I think I don’t know what o will do if I lose him … To his own battle with Bipolar illness / alcoholism …. But then I think of you and your wife and I know if I lose him I will be able to go on … Just not sure what life will hold for me … Bless you and your family Gabriel…
That is a beautiful memory … Wish I had written some of mine down
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I love reading these memories Gabriel. Such beautiful souls
same here Gabriel…tough day today..
oh Gabriel, I am glad you & Sunna have this wonderful memory..God Bless.
I’m so sorry. Love you xxx
Worldwide candle lighting for our children at 7:00PM.
It’s a bitter sweet day for me as well…first wedding anniversary as a widow.
Hugs to you and Sunna.
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