Good grief, what happened to the fall. And the beginning of November for that matter. About a week and a half until Thanksgiving, and only about a month and a half 'til Christmas. With Mike and I working not holiday-friendly jobs (retail and hospital), spending time with family is looking a little different this year. Not to mention that our siblings are all over the country and the world. Literally, Hawaii, Oregon, Virginia, one here in MN, and South Korea. I wonder, if we hopped our own private jet, flew directly to each of these places, spent at least an hour at each place, how long would that take us?
Thanksgiving we are scheduled to be with Mike's parents, which is nice in that they are in town, or at least within an hour of us. Mike and I both work, hospitals I guess really do need to be open all the time, jeez, in case of, I don't know, a life or death kind of situation ;) And retail, and the whole black Friday thing, just isn't pretty. So it sounds like we might be having a slightly less traditional Thanksgiving meal on Friday or Saturday, but again, it's nice that they are so close so we can do a good few bits several times over the weekend. And Christmas this year is with my parents, again, kinda tricky, especially for me. Mike doesn't have to work, but man, those last minute shoppers are killers. We're actually heading to them on Christmas and to stay for a few days, then be back in time for Mike and I both to work New Year's. Kinda cool again, though; because they are so close, we'll probably be able to do some of Mike's family's Christmas too.
I'm sure some day, whenever we start to have kids of our own, the holidays will start to look pretty different. We may even have to start hosting our own holiday celebrations. In the meantime, it is still really great to continue on in our families' traditions, even when they do start to evolve as we do into adults.
I'm going to try and remember these happy thoughts as the holidays get closer, and the shoppers get crabbier. For those of you who have never worked in retail around the holidays, and even for those of us who have and do, please remember that the people trying desperately to help you find that perfect gift are overworked, underpaid, and generally harassed more in these two months than most of us are in a year. And give them a small break...
1 comment:
I always worked in hospitals for my career and that was difficult and tricky to have holidays. Flexibility always helps!!
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