Holidays….

The holidays are creeping up, I often think of the holidays when I was a child. Things have changed so drastically. Christmas has become way too commercial, it’s seeing how many presents one can buy. Our Christmas growing up was quite different from my friends. My mother was from Germany and she wanted the holidays to be like they were for her. We got very few gifts, money was very tight. My father worked very hard to take care of us. I really miss him. I can still see him sitting on the couch every morning smoking a cigarette and scratching his head. He never said a word. He got ready for work, ate his breakfast and we usually didn’t see him till late at night. Like I said, he was a hard worker.