Just the other day I com­mented on how this year I really didn’t want to put up a tree and just not feel­ing extra hol­i­day­ish this year. Actu­ally my dream was to pack up and take off with my fam­ily and spend Christ­mas alone with them…something I haven’t felt like I have done for a while. It wasn’t until I received this extra spe­cial note from my sis­ter that put my life back into per­spec­tive and showed me that even all the effort I put into mak­ing the hol­i­days extra spe­cial that there are peo­ple that actu­ally appre­ci­ate my efforts. If not for any­one, I need to give my chil­dren spe­cial mem­o­ries that will last their life­time and not con­sume myself with all the work it entails. I hope that every­one in a Hol­i­day funk will know that all of the time they spend will make the hol­i­days that much more spe­cial to oth­ers. I hope my sis­ter doesn’t mind me post­ing this…but it seri­ously touched me and I love her!

I want you to know how much I appre­ci­ate you Har­mony. You have been an amaz­ing sis­ter. I always look back on all my trips to visit you as so much fun. Thanks for all the times you went out of your way to be there for me and for all the lit­tle things you do to make my life bet­ter. Every hol­i­day was bear­able because you brought life to them. I never really told you that and I thought you needed to know. You gave up your child­hood to be a ser­gate mom to us and I thank you.
Pray­ing for strength and wis­dom for you daily.

All my love,
Your lil sister