X-Mas
Hi everyone!
I packed my gifts yesterday (most of them - I still wait for something) and today I´ll start to pack my luggage to drive home to my mothers place for X-Mas.
In the past we allways celebrated at the same place: My great-grandmothers apartment. But she died last year at the 25th of december so for the first time in more than a decade we won´t celebrate there. Last X-Mas was already tough as her son, that lived with her, had died a half year previously. So you can imagine that this is different to how it used to be. We´ll try to occoupy ourselves and make it a nice X-Mas anyway. Our last action with my great-grandmother was to drink a glass of champagne and sing a song from the 30s that she had danced to with a boyfriend of hers when she was young (I had bought a sampler with old German songs that where hits in the 20s to 40s for myself and when my great-grandmothers birthday came up I bought her the same cause she loved to sing old songs. It turned out a great idea as from now on she listened to that Cd often and shared memories she connected with the songs.) hence I guess we´ll drink a glas of champagne on her and listen to that song. John has to work until the 24rth, so he´ll hurry to us just in time for the presents and Gulasch-Soup right after it. By the time we come back home our stomaches will be totally messed up again. We eat quiet healthy at home most of the time, at Moms they stuff us with fat meat and calories. :-D
In the past we allways celebrated at the same place: My great-grandmothers apartment. But she died last year at the 25th of december so for the first time in more than a decade we won´t celebrate there. Last X-Mas was already tough as her son, that lived with her, had died a half year previously. So you can imagine that this is different to how it used to be. We´ll try to occoupy ourselves and make it a nice X-Mas anyway. Our last action with my great-grandmother was to drink a glass of champagne and sing a song from the 30s that she had danced to with a boyfriend of hers when she was young (I had bought a sampler with old German songs that where hits in the 20s to 40s for myself and when my great-grandmothers birthday came up I bought her the same cause she loved to sing old songs. It turned out a great idea as from now on she listened to that Cd often and shared memories she connected with the songs.) hence I guess we´ll drink a glas of champagne on her and listen to that song. John has to work until the 24rth, so he´ll hurry to us just in time for the presents and Gulasch-Soup right after it. By the time we come back home our stomaches will be totally messed up again. We eat quiet healthy at home most of the time, at Moms they stuff us with fat meat and calories. :-D