How many times have you thought about all the places you have lived over your lifetime? Christmas at home with your parents when you were allowed to open one present before Christmas eve dinner and the excitement that brought?
You remember that living room with the tree you decorated with your parents, which looked so warm and festive in that cozy room. The memory of that home is still special to you today.
Maybe it was that attic apartment above the corner
grocery store, where every time the milk cooler door closed, you could hear it
loud and clear.
How about your first home where the Kitchen was so
small that you and your spouse took turns when you needed to enter it?
So many memories that put a smile on your face. That’s
why memories are so special. Whether it’s remembering a loved one that has
passed or the memory of living in a home that brought back happy feelings of an
earlier part of your life.
Those special memories of our past are part of the
process for keeping us happy. Although, we should never live in the past, it
will always be a part of who we are.
Maybe driving past a previous home and remembering when your daughter fell off the bike on that driveway, skinning her knee and wanting a hug from you so the hurt would go away.
The
basketball hoop on your garage where you taught your son or daughter to do
layups.
Remembering the home where you read, “Twas the night before Christmas” to your children and that priceless look in their eyes.
It’s really not the act that you remember, it’s the
feeling of that moment that you will never forget.
So, when you are at your home with those special
people in your life, drinking your spiced coffee and hot chocolate, turn off
that TV and talk about those special moments in your life that are etched in
your mind. I guarantee there will be laughs and some
happy tears!
This is what makes a house, a home.
After all, Tis the Season to Remember, that we're never far from Home.
Happy Holidays Everyone!
Jim and Cathy Higgins
www.Cathyhiggins.com
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