KarKar -- List Twenty Seven

H a r d w o r k 

that pays off. :)

This year has been difficult

in so many different ways, 

including the increase of drama

and lack of money

just in time for the most

pricey holiday of the year, 

Christmas.

I know there are

countless families out there, 

struggling much more than we do,

making sacrifices more draining 

then we can fully understand.

I get it, that it's tough to play Santa

and not get any of the credit,

but at the same time,

that's the beauty of it. 

Every year 

my mom worries 

about all her hard work

to give her family 

everything and more,

and every year 

she never fails

to blow us away. 

Not because she manages

to buy Cameras and Kindles

and other presents that we thought

we could only imagine as our own, 

but because she has taught 

each and every one of us

that it's not about the stuff 

we get underneath our artificial tree,

but the stuff we put beneath

someone elses.

The genuine smile,

those loving tears, 

the disbelief that someone

actually knew that was what 

they wanted when they never 

even said it out loud, or when

they didn't even know that

was what they wanted until

you gave it to them.

The thought that you 

gave them that happiness . . . 

even if you did sacrifice

a few months gas money,

that is one of the real

meanings of not just Christmas,

but life itself. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

AND

HAPPY "HOLLY" DAYS