Navidad Roto

Christmas has always been my favourite ime of year because of the copious amount of love that exudes from everybody! Christmas, Myia's favourite time :-) She used to buy the biggest gifts to put under the tree and always got us really good expensive gifts! Christmas, for her was about the giving and the love we aall shared....

Myia loved putting up the christmas tree, and then we all had to decorate it together.....that always used to be fun....Then, putting up the christmas lights....lol....Oh gosh....one christmas, Myia lent this huge ladder electricians used and she had me hold this while she dangerously placed lights all around the roof....lol...She was wearing her favourite shorts and vest and doing all sorts of reckless things on that roof....lol...

She made christmas so wonderful for all of us.....she used to get me to sit under the tree with her so she could shake the boxes with her name and guess what they were....most of the time she was right!!...lol

Shopping together was soo much fun! The last christmas, Jnin, Myia and I went shopping and everybody was tryng to evade each other in order to buy gifts and Myia did one over on me:

We entered a store and Mys asked me if i liked a particular bag for Jens. I said i really loved it but it did not look like it could be for Jens! It looks like something i would really love to have. So she put the bag away because clearly it was not "Jen-like"...We got all that we needed at that store and we went to another one! Suddenly Myia cries out in dismay, "i forgot the bags in the other store!!!!" So she leaves Jenin and I and rushes to get the bags she left :-)On christmas day, we wake up very early and get to the tree to begin exchanging gifts. We hand each other our gifts and watch in amusement as they open them. Mys hands me this big box and kisses my cheek! I open my box and literally scream out in absolute delight and surprise- The Bag!!!!!! When she had supposedly left our bags in the other store, she had gone back for the bag! I screamed and shouted and hugged her so tightly....That day, i put all my other gifts in that bag and hauled it around everywhere i went....I think i would have cooked with it too, had she not said "Merls come on give it a break!!" lol

After our exchanging of gifts, Carmeno has to do the turkey, the ham and the fish and then we have to cut, chop, slice, stew and whatever else.....Christmas lunch is always hearty and filling.....After we eat, we hang out, laugh, sleep and just enjoy our time together.....

This happens to us every year and every year, we have fun because Myia is always so exuberant and ecstatic about the day.....

I woke up and it felt "christmassy" and i played christmas carols and cried.....I am dreading this christmas because i will not have the joy of the day....the big boxes under the tree, the harassment for us to go shake the boxes, the celebration....

Some years ago, Jenin was in England; it was the week before she had to come to St Lucia- Myia and I put on christmas hats, climbed the balcony and started singing Celine Dion's the Best of Times Album really loudly - Karaoke style.....lol....that was a crazy night!! lol.....The Flambeauxs were passing and we were singing christmas carols.....lol

Mrs Eugene says to celebrate in memory of her but its so awful because its not even christmas yet and this hole in my heart hurts so much, i feel like dying.....

Myia, i wish i wish i wish with all my heart, that you could be my christmas gift!! I love you so absolutely and i miss you so terribly.....

Happy Holidays Mys!!