Christmas Blues or Christmas Spirit?
My husband is overseas. We’ve been married for nearly 7 years and together for 8 years. Of our years together, the first Christmas was spent apart. Since then we have been lucky enough to celebrate this joyous occassion together. It’ll be a first in 6/7 years we’ll be apart for Christmas. We had the opportunity to celebrate Thanksgiving with new found friends we made here when we moved here 10 months ago. We are stationed OCONUS and far from both families (his in the midwest, mine in the Netherlands).
We celebrated ‘Thanksmis’, but really did not exchanged gifts and focused on eachother being eachother’s gift, being thankful that we could be together at least one day of this holiday season.
The Christmas decorations have been up since November 1st, a month early, so that my husband could enjoy them.
And while I am invited by friends (a military family, of whom the wife is from the area) to come and celebrate Christmas with them at their aunts house, it won’t be quite the same without my husband.
We have no children, as we have struggled in that area and lost two precious babies these past few months before he left.
The comfort of our two four legged children does help.
It is harder to get into the spirit though. Especially since my beloved husband had just left. But I try to not let this deployment ruin such a joyous occassion as celebrating the birth of our Christ Jesus. A thought I try to hold onto as much as possible. It keeps me going and hopefully it will keep in the Christmas Spirit, and keep me out of the Christmas Blues.
householdzes
