Oh, Rob! Christmas has aways been special to me...even after I found out that their is no bearded fat man flying in his sled on Christmas Eve.
I've mentioned this briefly last night at the manor. One Christmas my wife and I were both out of work and she was expecting our third child. If not for the contribution of an anoynymus benefactor at church my children would not have had a Christmas. Now this is what religion and Christmas are all about, Robbie! It's all structured on faith and asking for proof just means you just are not getting it at all! Now that would make for one haunting childhood memory. I, myself, didn't get anything for Christmas BUT my kids did! It actually turned out to be a great Christmas after all!
We were still struggling the next Christmas but we would be able to have a very little something for the kids. Not anywhere near what I like to indulge in on my favorite holiday of the year, but it wasn't going to be a total wipeout as the year before had been. The insurance company where I worked intervened and adopted my family for Christmas and what would have been a pretty uneventful Christmas for the kids suddenly became much nicer! Faith in people, Robbie. They are not always trying to do something bad to one another. We have to be there for one another when we need help. The next Christmas my wife and I contributed greatly to our company cause for Christmas and helped organize and distributed the Christmas gifts we had gathered for the Women's shelter. We received help when we needed it. It was time to give some of it back. The women's shelter is comprised of women and their children who had no hope of giving their child any kind of Christmas. When you're completely down and out it's surprising how important it is all of a sudden that your kids have a good Christmas.
