Embracing the Changes on Christmas...

O ne of the main things that I’m worried about after I get married is leaving my family for the holidays. It’s something I had not really thought about up until last year. I really started thinking about our family tradition which is the immediate family getting together, having dinner, joking, laughing, arguing, and just enjoying each other. My biggest concern about leaving the family is that there are only 6 of us, and if you take one away, it’s a huge difference. When I realized that I would have to leave on some holidays I felt bad. I didn’t feel bad because I was going to be with my future wifes family, but because I would be leaving the six.
Then we came to this year. I was looking forward to spending my last Christmas with the six as a single man. It started with my mom. In about October she started saying that she might go to El Salvador and I began telling her that this was my last Christmas with the family (as a single man). Well, she decided either way she was going to El Salvador for a month.
Then my sister started talking about going to Florida for the holidays. Up until last week she had told us that she had given up on going and last minute she decided that she was definitely going. So here I am worrying about leaving my family for the holidays and instead my family leaves me for the holidays. Haha.
And yet, it doesn’t make me upset, not at all. It just made me realize that it’s not the end of the world. When you have to do something else for the holidays, you just have to do it. No worries. I’m going to get married so things will automatically change. You can’t resist the change, you just have to go with it. So I’m not sure if I will be in cali or Washington next year for the holidays but I’m not worried about leaving the family anymore. You have to do what you have to do. Time to embrace the changes.