For over 10 years, I have hated holidays. All of them. Holidays emphasize family, yet I no longer have the family I want to emphasize.
That family, the one I loved with every fiber of my being, was decimated 127 months ago (yes, I’m counting). When you lose a loved one and that loved one’s death comes at their own hand… well, holidays suck.
I was not always like this. I was the “let’s put up the Christmas tree on November 1” kind of mom, because who doesn’t love a tree filled with colored lights and ornaments?
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