Is It Over Yet?
I love Christmas but I have to say I’m glad this Christmas is over. This will be the Christmas I’ll never forget.
My youngest sons car needs a new transmission ($1,200). This happened on Saturday—weekend before Christmas. There concerned of course, thank goodness my son has this entire week off from work. It will give them time to find a new car.
My husbands bonus was cut way low this year, although we were saved in other ways financially. Thank you God for that.
On Christmas day my son in law (to be) (or hopefully not to be) decided he should have a few beers since it was the holidays. We tried to tell him there were no alcohol sales on Christmas, but he said oh he’d find a store open that sold beer. He grabbed my middle son and off they went. I was already upset that he couldn’t go through one day without beer, let alone how rude it was to just up and go like that. They were only planning on staying a couple hours for dinner and all
All of a sudden my daughter gets a phone call from him. He’s had a bad accident, almost killed my son (came inches from a tree on Jons side of the car). Wrapped the car around a tree, totalled the car. Thank God they are alive. All for stupid beer. I was sick..my poor daughter went over the deep end. Now they have no car, they still owe a few thousand on it. They were also driving uninsured which is against the law in Michigan. He received a ticket for $300.00 for driving without insurance…the car has been impounded and is costing money everyday it sits there.
I said a long prayer and put it in Gods hands which is what I do. Told my daughter to have faith. Maybe this was a wakeup call for them….drinking isn’t worth the headaches that come along with it.
Hope all my buddies had a great Christmas.
I did enjoy my Father completely this holiday. We gave him a cell phone. He committed to learning how to use it. He lit up like a Christmas tree when he was opening his gifts. To be that age and still smiling is a miracle.
I will pray for my children but I know how blessed I am…God bless all my buddies out there at BuddySlim!!
OH Jane, what a stressful Christmas. Thank God for small miracles like having your father and being able to surprise him with an exciting gift. Let the adult children handle their own problems.
And I agree, it was a very poor judgment on a part of your future (?) son-in-law. But we can’t control our children’s choices in partners, only hope that they have good brains to recognize trouble. Three years ago my son (19 at the time) brought a very young and very pretty girl for Easter dinner and said that he was going to marry her. I was terrified… a month later he found out that she was a porn star and broke up with her! This Christmas he brought a girlfriend who we completely approved.
Trust that everything will be the way it should be.
Hugs,
Tatiana
OMG!! Woman, we all have Christmas drama but yours by far outweighs any other kind!! I’m sorry that Christmas wasn’t so cheery for you this year. Mother Theresa used to say, that God promises not to give us any more than we can handle. My friend who has a child with cerebral palsy, says that God only sends disabled children to people He knows will be capable of caring for them….I say….God works in mysterious ways and no matter how bleek the situation, we must have faith that He knows what is right…we may not see the reasons WHY right away, but eventually, things will work out and usually, I would say about 99.99% of the time, for the better! Cheer up good buddy…these are the times when your faith will carry your through!
I’m so sorry, you had to deal with all that. You have my prayers and hugs. Glad you enjoyed your father, tohough! Love ya! Yeah, I’m glad it is over, too.
Jane,
Sorry you had a rough Christmas this year. You are so right in taking your troubles to God. Seems like future son-in-law might be thinking twice now. God works in Strange ways. Take care and count your blessings everyone is ok.
Ugh! What a rough day! Glad your son is okay and I hope, too, that it’ll be a wake up call! Hope you are well otherwise and ready to go go go for yourself