Story to tell....Veronique

Last day of the year. How did it go by so quickly? I'm sure there's a lot of people wondering the same thing as me. I was asking myself; Did I fully take advantage of it and what good things have I done or happened to me. I find it's always a challenge to me, to judge my last year from the things I've accomlished and achieve, so perhaps I'll take a different angle for 2015 and judge it based on the way I want to feel and live my life like. Family; It is never easy, to maintain those relationships the way you'd like them to be. Sometimes because of expectations of others, the way everyone decides to live their own life, and depending of the place they are at in their own journey. I want to live my life with my family based on love, communication and non-judgment of them. I think I have improved on most of those aspects but I feel I could still improve on the non-judgment. It's not that I don't respect them or want to make myself feel more valu...

It's was just before going to church. It was snowing, maybe, can't really recall. The car was running. Everyone was in the car. It was warm and cozy. Well, almost everyone. Dad was still inside. Running behind as usual, making us wait.  He finally came out the door, almost running. He got in the car, his big glasses full of fog. He had that moustache and he was running his fingers on it, making it nice. I can't really remember how old I was, but I remember thinking; I think he just ate the cookies!!! Yes, the cookies we had left on the dinner table, for Santa to enjoy, while he delivered us our gifts. I remember not being upset, or surprised really and not mentioning a thing to my parents or my little sister. It did not really matter I suppose, because what mattered was that it was Christmas Eve, and we were all going to church together and it really felt like Christmas.  It had me thinking, these last few days, about what the holidays meant to me when I was you...