Holidays

I can remember that Christmas was my favorite holiday. The J.W's didn't celebrate any holidays, but that didn't stop me from wishing that we would. When we would go to meetings I can remember seeing houses decorated, and I always told myself that if I had my own home I would decorate all of it inside and out. Well you would think that if we didn't get new clothes and toys on that day, that we would get them through out the year, not so. My whole childhood I was never bought a new toy, and the only new clothes we got was 3 shirts and pants right before school, after that it was second hand.

I never understood the reasons behind why we didn't celebrate any holidays. I do remember that my dad would take us to my aunts house every Thanksgiving, but I think it was because he liked turkey. In our home we never had any kind of holiday dinner. Oh how I wanted to celebrate holidays go trick or treating like my friends from school, or get an Easter basket, or get a tree and be in the Christmas play, but those things would never happen to me as a child. I hated going back to school after a holiday, just seeing all my school friends with their new stuff always made me sad.