I MISS MY MOM

The holidays always make me think of my mother, she was a sucker for the decorations and the traditions, I even think she got into the going into debt to make sure we had a great christmas. She was really quite an amazing person, She decorated her tree with the most hilarious south western decorations including little luminarias. She really loved buying us stuff so this was her shining moment. But she was practical as well, always socks and underwear in every stocking. She made biscochitos every year and a handful of other cookies that were off the hook delicious including the sugar drops with little kisses in the middle, chocolate canes, some sort of ball like cookie that was so goooooood, she loved it and without her it all seems just not as great. We never went without real luminarias outside of the house on Christmas eve and a big mexican breakfast on Chirstmas morning. I just loved her breakfasts, they tasted so much better than anything I can make. She also loved to take us to see the singing Christmas tree that West High put on every year and drive around the hood to check out other peoples lights. We loved the tree and the decorations so much one year that we left it up until May. If I had to ask Santa for anything right now it would be "one more Christmas with my mom" Having a daughter opens upp my world in so many ways but it doesn't replace that feeling of having my mother near by, The love a child has for their mother never ends beyond the barriers of this life time it carries on.....She is the star on top of the my tree...